#ILM
Hi Rachel,
Ahhh……yes….The old color charts. We did ours on separate boards. One for
each of the basic hues. After we had finished them all, the instructor would
take the whole set and regrade them as an entire unit. There were some long
faces in the class after that little stunt, mine included…..<g>. But was
there a lot of attention given to tints, hues, shades and saturations after
that, and the instructor didn't even have to remind us. And a lot of us got to
the point where we could mix a matching color close enough on the first try to
get it exact with a little fiddling.
I was amazed at just how handy that ability came into play later. Working as a
tech illustrator for a bunch of engineers on government projects, you gotta
make the picture the exact, right color (after all, they gave you the damn
color chips didn't they……..<grin>.) Even engineers forget that there is a
difference between watercolor (or designers colors) on paper and oil based
paint on steel. For one of the chief project engineers we would have to mix the
metal colors light so when the final product was refrisketed for the
application of fixative on these colors, they would darken to the proper shade
an hue. The fixative also gave the colors the proper gloss of the oil based
paints…….sheesh…..talk about a production.
Ahhh….but that was a long time ago. Doubt that I could hold a brush that
steady any more, and I know that I couldn't draw a straight, even line with an
air brush again. All down the tubes for the sake of production speed on a
computer screen. OH!!! Well!!!