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Yes Allan, that's correct. I eschew the use of complements for the purpose of neutralizing color. As Daniel Greene pointed out last year at his PSA demo, "When I want to gray down a color I just add gray!" Eliminating the need to include a perfect compliment for each palette color means that I don't need to have a periodic chart full of colors on my palette and I can focus on the task at hand, painting. Also I use a hand held palette and I fear straining my arm.
Munsell used five pigments as opposed to three because with five you have a greater range of chromatic possibilities. Although I use his nomenclature and color wheel I'm not particularly interested in painting DayGloesque compositions.
I'd like to thank Steven for pointing out I've been misspelling the word complement by exchanging the first e for an i. I'm a horrible (creative?) speller and if spell check doesn't pick it up neither do I. If anyone reads an old post where I've mentioned that word, please pretend it's spelled correctly. Thanks!
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