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Originally Posted by Marvin Mattelson
I don't know what the point is to learning tricks. It can create a crutch. I think the point is to find the best way to train ones eyes to see color values accurately.
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Marvin is right. The way to develop a good eye and judgment is to rely on your eye and judgment, not some device.
Setting aside for the moment the limitations of paint versus light in Nature, which makes creating the illusion of reality a more complicated matter than merely matching the colors we see at the values they actually are, suppose we're using one of these devices, and it tells us what color things are. After we know what color is there, how do we determine whether that's the best color to paint it in order to make the best possible
work of art?
Virgil Elliott