Dear Chris and Allan,

Thank you both!

Chris: You are the eminent published authority on color in paint, so you can imagine how I appreciate your kind words!

Allan: Arriving at textural effects in a painting can sometimes be no more than the right colors and values juxtaposed together. It may seem like magic when it manifests and comes together in the painting process, but there is really no secret beyond that, and it often arrives by surprise.

Garth

Thank you Garth, your computation of color is amazing! Great idea, I've never been so organized when I start playing around with my mixtures. I'll try it on my current painting.

Jean

Garth, this is a triumph for you and for our eyes.
This last part of the thread is also a lesson about how far one must be prepared to go to achieve this standards
Thank you for sharing
Ilaria

Garth words can't describe how impressive this is. Gorgeous. I'm in awe. Congratulations!

There's nothing left to say. It takes our collective breath away. That's a LOT. Janet

Eyes being the final arbiter. . . .
 

Jean,

Just remember that as crazy and analytical as I can get with colors and computers, in the end it's your eyes that count the most in fixing a color. Nothing else comes close! fortunately eyes are what we mostly all have in common.

Regards,

Garth

The existing portrait collection:

A growing vocabulary!
 

Dear Ilaria, Terri, and Janet,

All your kind words are keenly appreciated. The one benefit from the responses is a greater awareness of the variety of options to a response, in terms of vocabulary choices.

Thanks,

Garth

Dude...Sweet...

I'm gonna paint some landscapes.

Peace out,

David, have you considered the option of placing people into those landscapes?

Thanks,

Garth

Edit: Actually David, I kind of recall that it was around the time of your discussion about using tonal relationships to commence a painting that I was getting started on this. Come to think of it, you influenced my painting! :exclamati

Hmmm.....
 

People into landscapes....Hmmmm.......People......

I wonder......Has it been done before?

I need to meditate....