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So much information!
What a terrific thread and so many postings of beautiful paintings. I have seen Paxton' s work at museums before and loved them but have never seen "The Breakfast". What a brilliant painting of white on white. Oh to see that one in person!
Along with identifying color as value, hue,temperature and intensity you have to consider the local color and two other influences, color of the light and influence of other local colors.
Color of the light determines if your light areas are warm or cool and that color of light washes over everything creating harmony The shadow is usually the complement with some of the light bounced into it.
The effect of local colors bouncing into each other really hit me when I was trying to paint sunlit grass. I had the color of the grass mixed, the value was correct added some orange for sunlight and was troubled by how flat it looked. It was a clear day with a bright blue sky I picked up a glob of sky color and swiped it across the grass and then the color was true. It was a lesson learned that I consider whenever and whatever I paint now.
Thank you everyone for the postings on this thread there is so much information and it is such a learning experience to see all the approaches to color.
Sharon that photo of the ballerina is stunning. I can only imagine how the colors glow in real life.
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