Comments on: Healing Arts

By: June Underwood

June Underwood — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:49:51 +0000

Angela,

Your work inspired a wonderful set of comments. I think this is important — maybe not as important as the work coming out of yourself, but still it has something to do with the spirit you are evoking in your painting.

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:51:16 +0000

George your comments are wonderful as they teach me to see my own work grounded in a new light, thank you!

By: George

George — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:41:58 +0000

Angela, I understand your approach probably better than you think. I always assumed it was intuitive and didn’t mean to suggest anything otherwise. After Steve’s comment I took the time to analyze what was behind his observations from a formal/technical point of view. It has more to do with the previous discussion on Albers than you.

That said, there are a lot of ways to unleash the intuitive including direct practice or rehearsal. Internalized knowledge allows the fruits of non-thinking to energize and manifest our experiences on/in other levels of perception and awareness.

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:14:06 +0000

George I have learned and study academically that sort of technical knowledge about structuring and colour application and to be honest that is something completely a world apart from when I paint… I always use colour intuitively as I am emotionally and internally driven. The way the colours energetically vibrate and feel is more what I am about. This creates an imprint on the canvas. Just cannot image producing a painting in my style with a technical and calculist mind but it is fascinating to see the way you value it in the materialistic worldly view. Thank you!

By: Steve Durbin

Steve Durbin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:11:58 +0000

George,

Thanks for the chart. Intuitively I want to separate the idea of a color from its degree of lightness/darkness, but I guess what you’re saying is that they are inherently entangled. I can understand that when I think about yellow vs. blue, but it still seems odd.

By: George

George — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:27:22 +0000

Steve,

Photoshop implements the Lab colorspace internally for everything. Lab is not very intuitive but essentially it has 2 channels.
A Lightness channel:
A dark/light measure of a color is (like a greyscale rendition)
Two color channels
Red Green and Blue Yellow

Like I said it’s not very intuitive but the colors yellow and blue have the lightest and darkest “Lightness” value

Ok, maybe this Chartwill help.

On the color wheel you can see that blue is on the dark side and yellow is the lightest (it’s a 98% value, almost white)

By: Steve Durbin

Steve Durbin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:17:08 +0000

George,

Thanks for your insights, very helpful as I learn about color.