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11-13-2005, 07:16 PM
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Portrait Studio Wall Color
Until well into the 20th century, artists
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11-13-2005, 07:19 PM
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A lot of artists have adopted this color. I use it and love it and I know several other artists who do too. The Scottsdale Artists
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11-13-2005, 07:22 PM
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A few people have asked me to make a color sample for them. If I make a few, I might as well make a few more. Therefore, if any of you would like a sample of the color, send a dollar and a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
Whitaker Studio Color
4325 Ivy Lane
Provo, UT 84604
You can take it to your local paint store and easily find a color like it, or a color you think is even better. Go ahead, modify away! Sherrie and David have recently built two new studios and are using a modified color for them that is even darker and a bit richer. (I thought it was pretty hard to tell the difference.) Below is a photo of Sherrie and me in her new studio.
Be warned: the color looks horrible in the can! You will think it looks like the color the Bulgarians use to paint their military vehicles. In your studio it is magic though.
If you can't paint your studio walls, you can make a portable backdrop out of foamcore board and use the color there.
You don't need to paint your ceiling. My studio ceiling is white and Sherrie's ceiling is wood, traditional for Taos. Both work just fine.
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11-13-2005, 07:47 PM
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Thanks for reminding us about this, Bill. And thanks for posting the gorgeous photo of your model with that wall color. If I ever build my dream studio in the backyard it will have all the features you described.
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11-14-2005, 02:49 AM
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Scanning that wall color:
Dear Bill,
The following is as accurate a method I can come up with to reproduce your famous wall color for this Forum. I scanned it tonight (again) with my Gretag-MacBeth Eye-One Photo color spectrometer (image inset) and got the following readings on the L.a.b. scale: L: 48.0, a: 0.1, b: 11.7.
The nearest values in Photoshop are: L: 48, a: 0, b: 12. I painted a color patch and saved it in the color space used on this Forum.
My can of Benjamin Moore paint was tinted to the exact formula you have posted above. Thanks for the brief sketch of the color's evolution and historic provenance.
Edit: Your photograph portrait above is wonderful! The color does appear richer and greener to my eye in the daylight, than in this photoshop swatch, so the color effect on your photograph is right on target!
Enjoy,
Garth
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11-14-2005, 03:04 PM
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Garth,
Your technological savvy is wondeful.
I envy you.
Art AND science!
Bill
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