As a painter, this is both amusing and terrifying to read.
There are simple ways to conceptualize color mixing, for example the primary model, or HSV. Of course, those are models, so they don't capture everything, as mentioned ITT (e.g. transparency, lightfastness, texture, potency, price) but they're practically good enough.
For example, in a primary (+white) setting, a given mix can only:
- not have enough red
- not have enough blue
- not have enough yellow
- not have enough white
So the only questions one can ask is: "does it need more red/yellow/blue/white?", period. If one has more than those 4 colors, then the trick is to understand them in terms of red/blue/yellow/white: one is then left again with those 4 questions.
I've found HSV more practical than RYB, but people are generally accustomed to RYB, hence why I've described it instead; the general idea really is the same: only a small, finite number of mistakes.
It's simple, but it still requires a few hours of practice until it becomes intuitive, especially with "real world" pigments.
There are simple ways to conceptualize color mixing, for example the primary model, or HSV. Of course, those are models, so they don't capture everything, as mentioned ITT (e.g. transparency, lightfastness, texture, potency, price) but they're practically good enough.
For example, in a primary (+white) setting, a given mix can only:
- not have enough red
- not have enough blue
- not have enough yellow
- not have enough white
So the only questions one can ask is: "does it need more red/yellow/blue/white?", period. If one has more than those 4 colors, then the trick is to understand them in terms of red/blue/yellow/white: one is then left again with those 4 questions.
I've found HSV more practical than RYB, but people are generally accustomed to RYB, hence why I've described it instead; the general idea really is the same: only a small, finite number of mistakes.
It's simple, but it still requires a few hours of practice until it becomes intuitive, especially with "real world" pigments.