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Color to my ears
Marvin,
I agree completely with you on mastering discplines. I see such poor craftsmanship and total ignorance of the basics of what we call "Fine Art", I do not want to denigrate one method of knowledge.
However I can not see how such a complicated system as the "Munsell" can not but short-circuit the intuitive process.
I have studied color in Asian art as well as queried, its practicioners. They do believe in discipline and have established formats, but as I have said before the have no color theory per se.
Investigating further, they seem to have derived their color harmonies from nature.
Personally, I find the simple formulae of analagous and complementary colors useful, the rest rather cumbersome.
As I now work mainly in pastel, there is no hope of using color mixing recipies of any kind, just a rather constant search for that elusive right stick!
Color, at least to me, works best when one is not thinking. It becomes a little song, a little blue, a hair of red, a dollop of white, and hmmm, just a smidge of burnt sienna.
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