Dave Hawksford
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as always Dave looks awesome!
How do you know when to add colors like blue? I can grasp the reds, yellows and oranges and even green but blue throws me?
Dave...Looks good, well done.
If you pick up a finishers color wheel like this it will help in knowing what colors make what colors.
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Thats wheel dose not have blue
I have 18 credit hour in color so dealing with color has never been an issue .
Mike the color wheel you placed up is a artist ie. Painters color wheel. Which I learned from as an artist. The Wood finishers color wheel is great for stains which come across totally different the opaque colors.
A painters color wheel will provide a source for making judgements of what tints, pigments or colors are needed to **achieve a certain shade.** My first color wheel I think I got from Sherwin-Williams in the early 70's. It was either free or something like $1. Most woodworkers back then that did finishing used them. I may still have that one...maybe it's a collectors item.
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Might be semantics but bare with me please, Shade is the light or darkness of a color, The color wheel give you the ability to decided which colors to mix to obtain the desired color to work with. Once the color is reached then the mixing of colors more of less will help you achieve the hue desired. Shades can be reached by adding Light tones or darker tones. ie. black or white. I do not like using black or white very ofter because the pastel effect that is visual to the brains perception. This brings up the what I like to use with wood .....glazing to allow light movement through the glazes to fool the eye and into thinking one is seeing a true color when there might be 2 or 3 glazes that have been slightly shaded for a old look or a new look of wood or the wood I am working.
Might be semantics but bare with me please, Shade is the light or darkness of a color, The color wheel give you the ability to decided which colors to mix to obtain the desired color to work with. Once the color is reached then the mixing of colors more of less will help you achieve the hue desired. Shades can be reached by adding Light tones or darker tones. ie. black or white. I do not like using black or white very ofter because the pastel effect that is visual to the brains perception. This brings up the what I like to use with wood .....glazing to allow light movement through the glazes to fool the eye and into thinking one is seeing a true color when there might be 2 or 3 glazes that have been slightly shaded for a old look or a new look of wood or the wood I am working.
Purely semantics, but bare with me please. Color wheels can show shades, hues, and tones, and can help make decisions of what to mix. That's just my short description, whether I'm right or wrong. Sorry I didn't use terminology you are used to. If it makes you happy... you're right, and I'm wrong.
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Purely semantics, but bare with me please. Color wheels can show shades, hues, and tones, and can help make decisions of what to mix. That's just my short description, whether I'm right or wrong. Sorry I didn't use terminology you are used to. If it makes you happy... you're right, and I'm wrong.
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