Harnessing the Power of the Palette

To understand color is to first understand light. Therefore, the first part of this series on the palette will focus on the nature of light and how it behaves. It will take an intimate look at color from the source—light—and examine how and why we see it. In addition, it will explore pigment as a substance and how it is used to imitate light. This combined physical knowledge of light and pigment will give new insight into our paints, forcing us to use and think of them in new ways. This intimate exploration of our surroundings offers the ability to harness greater control over expressing what we see in terms of paint.

You will never look at your subject, or your paints, in the same way again . . .