Thank you so much Sue! It means so much to hear you say that. Colour doesn't have to be as complicated as it appears, I think, and I haven't found a better method of simplifying it than this.
As for your teachings dear paul, fabulous work. Really appreciate all the effort you put in. It is highly educational and cant wait for your next videos.
Definitely one of the best art channels, sir. I love the long videos packed full with helpful information. Keep up the excellent work you are doing, helping us so we can be better painters. Thank you
Hi Paul, Thank you so very much for this webinar on Munsell. I have seen you in action with this system. I could visually see how you were able to match colors. It has been a few years since learning of the system. I finally was able to purchase the big book from a retiring artist. I feel this can make a huge difference in my work.
Thank you for the video. I am a beginner and am using acrylics. It dries so fast I don't even have time to play around with a palette knife like you do in your video. Any advice for mixing acrylics?
This is the best painting channel i have found on youtube so far. Could you please tell me what kind of lights you think are good for a smallish studio?
Thank you Andrea! That's really good to hear! I do my best :) Have a look at this page: www.learning-to-see.co.uk/mastering-colour-course-materials-list it's the materials list for my Mastering Colour course. Near the bottom are links to the lights I use. Let me know if you have any questions about them. I paint in a fairly small room, and they work fine for me, although the soft-boxes are quite large.
Paul Foxton oh thank you for the link. I will have my first dedicated painting room and in my Amazon wish list I have a couple of soft boxes. Quite cheap, but they should be enough for my needs. I want something that casts diffuse light: glare is a constant annoyance
for 20+ yrs I painted the Bob Ross method which was pretty much "recipe" painitng. I have just started tin the last 2 months o try to unlearn that and learn traditional painting methods... I can pretty much match values fairly accurately but colors are giving me a hard time. My wife will look at objects and actually see colors that I dont see. So Ireally hope this helps me - thanks
By the way, I find this "bracketing" procedure extremely helpful to learn how to mix colours. It's time consuming, but I guess once one has more experience, the whole procedure takes less and less time until it becomes nearly automatic
It depends. I'd recommend starting with the New Munsell Student Colour set. You can the latest edition (fourth at time of writing this) but I have the second edition which you can still get cheaper second hand, and that's find. The main thing is to check with the seller that all the chips are included and they haven't been stuck into the book yet.
If you decide to plump for the "big book", the one I'm using the chips from in this video, that costs about $1000 so is no small investment. The one to go for is the glossy edition. But I'd recommend starting with the much cheaper Student book first, and see how you get on with it.
Beware of the Student 4th edtion: The reviews for the 4th edition are quite bad, even somewhat angry, on amazon.ca and .com too. Lots of missing tiles, tiles stuck together, no support from publisher, etc. On the other hand older student editions have (mostly) rave reviews.
I’m looking up to no avail, cannot find any bard book by jerry ackerman or greg or anything on them, a different jerry Ackerman maybe but nothing relating to art
I am a 68-year old English artist who was brought up (along with most European painters from the 12th century onwards) to be taught that the difference in lightness/darkness of a colour/hue is known as its TONE. It seems that the neologism 'value' (presumably an abbreviation of the term 'tonal value', which is widespread, especially, in America) is becoming a commonplace replacement for the more accurate word, tone. When I think of the lightness or darkness of a hue I automatically think (and speak) about its tone, as every painter from Giotto to Picasso would. The term 'value', in isolation, only means something's monetary worth to me (and I suspect to thousands of other artists). I simply wish that art tutors would once again refer, correctly, to a colour's tone and not its 'value', which is quite meaningless. Also, the Munsell Hue/Tone/Chroma chart is fundamentally flawed. It lacks two complementary colours (Orange-Red and Orange-Yellow) whilst it incongruously refers to Orange as 'Red-Yellow'. A basic colour wheel should always have complementary opposites. Green is the complementary of Red and should be directly opposite it on the chart. Similarly, Green-Yellow should be opposite Purple-Red, Yellow opposite Purple, Orange-Yellow opposite Purple-Blue, Orange opposite Blue, and Orange-Red opposite Green-Blue. The fact that this is an imbalanced wheel with just ten hues (instead of twelve) goes completely against logic and accepted colour chart wisdom. Apart from that, your video is full of very interesting and worthwhile information and I have learned-even at my age-much from it.
I'm late to the party but you're missing one fact about the Munsell System is that it is based on the CMY Primaries, and not Red, Yellow, Blue. Cyan, Magenta and Yellow give a wider range of colours in it's palette. Try them and see.
Looked for a munsell book. €1000 if you will. Jesus christ. I understand the research and development behind it and how producing such an efficient and accurate book demands accuracy and the proper technology but come on. For someone trying to learn value, hue and chroma as a hobbyist, this is way beyond any possibility. Any good alternatives?
This webinar is the precious diamond in the mine of all painting videos on RUclips!
Mr. Foxton, thank you very much for the truly enriching webinar!
What an awesome find you are! Thanks for the lesson. You explained color better than anyone I've heard before and I've surfed u tube endlessly.
Thank you so much Sue! It means so much to hear you say that. Colour doesn't have to be as complicated as it appears, I think, and I haven't found a better method of simplifying it than this.
Same here. I'm a new painter and you are a gold mine! Thanks for posting these
Can’t thank you enough,you are True Artist and great teacher. Regards from Egypt.
As for your teachings dear paul, fabulous work. Really appreciate all the effort you put in. It is highly educational and cant wait for your next videos.
Definitely one of the best art channels, sir. I love the long videos packed full with helpful information. Keep up the excellent work you are doing, helping us so we can be better painters. Thank you
Thank you Tyrrhenus! I will :)
Hi Paul,
Thank you so very much for this webinar on Munsell. I have seen you in action with this system. I could visually see how you were able to match colors. It has been a few years since learning of the system. I finally was able to purchase the big book from a retiring artist. I feel this can make a huge difference in my work.
Thanks a lot for doing these, Paul. I've known your website for years, but just now found out you've been doing these webinars. Excellent work!
You're very welcome! I appreciate you taking the time to let me know. More will be coming soon :)
I have watched several of your webinars they have been very helpful with a project I am working on.
Thank you for the video. I am a beginner and am using acrylics. It dries so fast I don't even have time to play around with a palette knife like you do in your video. Any advice for mixing acrylics?
Look into using a wet pallet maybe? .. Ton of videos on how to make your own... Hope that is helpful to you!
2019...still cool. Thanks for sharing the Munsell color mixing. I will be working with color mixing this next month.
This is the best painting channel i have found on youtube so far. Could you please tell me what kind of lights you think are good for a smallish studio?
Thank you Andrea! That's really good to hear! I do my best :)
Have a look at this page:
www.learning-to-see.co.uk/mastering-colour-course-materials-list
it's the materials list for my Mastering Colour course. Near the bottom are links to the lights I use. Let me know if you have any questions about them. I paint in a fairly small room, and they work fine for me, although the soft-boxes are quite large.
Paul Foxton oh thank you for the link. I will have my first dedicated painting room and in my Amazon wish list I have a couple of soft boxes. Quite cheap, but they should be enough for my needs. I want something that casts diffuse light: glare is a constant annoyance
A G N
for 20+ yrs I painted the Bob Ross method which was pretty much "recipe" painitng. I have just started tin the last 2 months o try to unlearn that and learn traditional painting methods... I can pretty much match values fairly accurately but colors are giving me a hard time. My wife will look at objects and actually see colors that I dont see. So Ireally hope this helps me - thanks
Very high learning value. Thank you!
Thank you Giovanni, and you're very welcome!
By the way, I find this "bracketing" procedure extremely helpful to learn how to mix colours. It's time consuming, but I guess once one has more experience, the whole procedure takes less and less time until it becomes nearly automatic
Bracketing is mixing magic :) But yes, it does take time, especially at the start. I'm much quicker now than I used to be :)
Thank you for this very helpful video !
So very well explained, thanks.
Thanks, and you're very welcome :)
Working well from South Africa
Which edition of the munsel(spelling) book are you working with? Can anyone tell me which edition is best? Thanks
It depends. I'd recommend starting with the New Munsell Student Colour set. You can the latest edition (fourth at time of writing this) but I have the second edition which you can still get cheaper second hand, and that's find. The main thing is to check with the seller that all the chips are included and they haven't been stuck into the book yet.
If you decide to plump for the "big book", the one I'm using the chips from in this video, that costs about $1000 so is no small investment. The one to go for is the glossy edition. But I'd recommend starting with the much cheaper Student book first, and see how you get on with it.
Beware of the Student 4th edtion: The reviews for the 4th edition are quite bad, even somewhat angry, on amazon.ca and .com too. Lots of missing tiles, tiles stuck together, no support from publisher, etc. On the other hand older student editions have (mostly) rave reviews.
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I’m looking up to no avail, cannot find any bard book by jerry ackerman or greg or anything on them, a different jerry Ackerman maybe but nothing relating to art
Everything working fine here in Michigan, USA
yes
All well in South Africa
I am a 68-year old English artist who was brought up (along with most European painters from the 12th century onwards) to be taught that the difference in lightness/darkness of a colour/hue is known as its TONE. It seems that the neologism 'value' (presumably an abbreviation of the term 'tonal value', which is widespread, especially, in America) is becoming a commonplace replacement for the more accurate word, tone.
When I think of the lightness or darkness of a hue I automatically think (and speak) about its tone, as every painter from Giotto to Picasso would. The term 'value', in isolation, only means something's monetary worth to me (and I suspect to thousands of other artists). I simply wish that art tutors would once again refer, correctly, to a colour's tone and not its 'value', which is quite meaningless.
Also, the Munsell Hue/Tone/Chroma chart is fundamentally flawed. It lacks two complementary colours (Orange-Red and Orange-Yellow) whilst it incongruously refers to Orange as 'Red-Yellow'. A basic colour wheel should always have complementary opposites. Green is the complementary of Red and should be directly opposite it on the chart. Similarly, Green-Yellow should be opposite Purple-Red, Yellow opposite Purple, Orange-Yellow opposite Purple-Blue, Orange opposite Blue, and Orange-Red opposite Green-Blue. The fact that this is an imbalanced wheel with just ten hues (instead of twelve) goes completely against logic and accepted colour chart wisdom.
Apart from that, your video is full of very interesting and worthwhile information and I have learned-even at my age-much from it.
I'm late to the party but you're missing one fact about the Munsell System is that it is based on the CMY Primaries, and not Red, Yellow, Blue. Cyan, Magenta and Yellow give a wider range of colours in it's palette. Try them and see.
Looked for a munsell book. €1000 if you will. Jesus christ. I understand the research and development behind it and how producing such an efficient and accurate book demands accuracy and the proper technology but come on. For someone trying to learn value, hue and chroma as a hobbyist, this is way beyond any possibility. Any good alternatives?
thank yoy!!!
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