Yellow is Y, green is G, blue is B and purple is P. Instead of saying red – in Munsell it is R. There’s a slight wrinkle in the way Munsell denotes these that can feel a little weird to begin with. At its simplest this is the name of the color. In the Munsell color system hue is the first component. To see how this notation system works let’s start with the first (and easiest) component. This Munsell color notation lets us define almost any color we want. It breaks color into three components and we can classify any color according to those components. Munsell gives us a straightforward, reproducible and easily learned way to think about color. They also have a set of Munsell color project stories about how different people have used Munsell. There are some great pages elsewhere that can tell you much more than I can. I won’t go into detail about how the Munsell color theory came about. This, rather than the application of paint to paper, was the thing that is transformational about Munsell. We’ll then look at how we can use this to really sharpen our perception of color. We’ll be defining each one and seeing how they look on a color wheel and in individual Munsell color charts. This breaks down colors into three components – hue, value, and chroma. In this post we’ll be learning about color as defined by the Munsell color system. HP Submit What we’ll cover about the Munsell System Especially if you’re an oil painter I highly recommend you check him out. He introduced me to Munsell through his website and his fabulous YouTube videos. But I want to give a shout-out to Paul Foxton. Off the top of my head these include Kathy Speranza, Graydon Parrish, Anthony Waichulis, and Richard Murdock. Munsell is Increasingly Popular Amongst ArtistsĪ growing number of people are using or starting to use Munsell. But I’d missed a big part of color and that’s where Munsell came to the rescue. I knew my color wasn’t working and I knew that I wasn’t really seeing color as value. A lot of ‘really trying’ but not a lot of ‘really working’. I tried various things – really trying to get the values right, graying down all my colors so they were more muted, really trying to simplify shapes. They were all coming out really garish and the colors weren’t working in harmony. My problem was that color wasn’t really working in my paintings. I knew something was wrong and I kind of knew what it was but I didn’t know how to fix it. Just before I really got into Munsell I’d been flailing around trying to work out why my color wasn’t working in my paintings.
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