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Originally Posted by John Reidy
Regarding your dress in your first post, you did use color to create the forms even if it flows as the same hue from light to dark.
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Thank-you John!
That little portrait got me quite a few commissions. It was done more than 15 years ago. I think I have learned (I hope) a bit more about color since then!
Using
A COLOR is different than being a colorist or using color well. I can use, let us say, an orange color and go from light to dark, depicting the fruit. That mean I am using a color to fill in rather than using it as part of a field of harmonious color. In that portrait I
FILLED IN each area with an appropriate color.
Filling in areas of form, even with the appropriate color is, as I see it, is
not being a colorist . That would be like a child with a coloring book filling in the individual areas with crayons. even
IF they got the right colors in the right place. It is getting the colors into a harmonious union whether they be flat or have form, that is the role of the colorist.