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You got it Richard.
When a string of grays are coupled with value strings of various hues the amount of control in color mixing is geometrically magnified. I find using nine steps to be more efficient by virtue of the elimination of some extra steps. Using such an approach is what allows my workshop students to make such amazing progress in just two weeks, or even less. Color mixing becomes much less of a struggle and more attention can be focused on value control.
I know there are certain people who read my posts and don't like that I mention my teaching, but I believe that the fact my approach works so well for so many gives my ideas greater credibility.
Steven, Sanden's Pro Mix Colors utilize two or three grays, I believe. The concept of using neutrals to reduce intensities has been around since DaVinci. Bouguereau also used a similar approach as did many many others.
Artists of the past may not necessarily have used the exact nomenclature of the Munsell System but using value strings of various hues and neutralizing them to control intensity go back much further than Munsell. Without such an approach Bouguereau wouldn't have been able to achieve the subtlety that made his work so noteworthy.
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