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Old 09-12-2006, 08:56 AM   #1
Richard Budig Richard Budig is offline
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Marvin:

Please be assurred that I was not taking "shots" at you or anyone else. I hold you and your work in the highest regard.

The point I was reaching for is that many artist often pre mix something. And, in all the cases I know of where pre mixing occurrs, the premixed colors then must be modified in some way . . . from a little to a lot, and that this premixing thing is, among other things, a time saving for the artist.

I don't see any sort of premixing as bad. I just wonder why some artists are praised for doing it, while others are sniped at. If premixing is "bad," it's bad and if it's good, it's good.

When you think about it, every color we finally put up on our canvas is pre mixed, whether than means it was mixed far in advance of the painting session, or whether it was mixed in that tiny moment during the painting process.

What's the difference between mixing a series of colors before the model arrives, or after the model has taken the stand before us. It is a rare moment when a color right out of the tube meeds our flesh-color requirement, and thus, 99.9% of all color is premixed, anyway.

My question, which I obviously did not state well, is, why are some praised for doing it, and some criticized?
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