Palette - Paint Brand Color Sample Sets

[Jim Gahl]

Hi,

First off, I hope that my discourse did not offend anyone! I don't wish to be viewed as an in your face "expert" by anyone here. I do have to say that participating in other forums and making contacts with individuals who are way more knowledgeable than me about color and color printing had helped me get the kind of prints from my art that I want. If what I wrote about encourages anybody to explore the world of color - using it and printing with it.... I feel that I have returned the favors others have given me.

Rose, you raise a good point.... about the Winsor Newton color palette I sent it to Karen Boneker after the John Derry Web broadcast. My experience was that the Winsor Newton color palette, for the most part, was not out of gamut when printed. I got some fabulous prints using the WN color palette with Hanehmule (sp?) fine art paper or Epson Watercolor Paper.

Well, having a digital print with a water color look, I would never try an add more watercolor to it. Well, actually, I never have tried that, but my guess is that the pigments of the ink would not mesh well with real WN pigments. Hmmmmm.... maybe something to try.

Ok, this was shorter this time.... give me a high five for that. LOL

Jim

[Fashmir]

Ka-Blam!!! Look-a-that fine pallet work. Thanks a ton Trurl. These are beautiful.

Jim- Thanks for sharing your insight with us about the print and then paint aspect of working with digital colors. I have been toying with the idea of printing some of my originals on canvas and then painting further on them. This will allow me to use the digital tools I love (ArtRage) and then by painting more on top, I have an 'original' that is unique. I can then run prints in limited editions and it will be based on something that has a singular value as a piece of art.

[John Williams]

Trurl, thanks from a non-artist who is inspired by Artrage and the examples I've sen in the Forums to give ths digital delight a go.

I'm also impressed with the generosity so many have displayed and the great cooperative spirit displayed by all forum posters.

I've been a Member and a moderator of quite a few and rarely seen one where everyone maintains such a good atmosphere.

John Williams

[byroncallas]

Jim Gahl, a good review, and I have a question: While it's true the colors won't ever look "dead on" on most monitors calibrated or not, isn't it (or is it not) true that if the colors swatches are input into the computer software and system at the right (true) gamuts and then selected by the artist the "true" color will be in the file used for prepress conversion? In other words, the color on the monitor won't be right, but the information in the file will be "right"?

This is a can of worms, so my question is a technical one about the specific fact and intentionally ignores the difficulties related to managing the technical fact for getting near true color in print reproduction. So, my first question to Trurl was intended to get at how the colors are derived in a way that they are introduced in the system at their true gamut, which is step one necessary for addressing all the can-be-nightmarish steps that follow when dealing with color fidelity for print output.

What's you take on this?

[justjean]

Thank you for your great pallets , much appreciated

[jlpdelpal]

I´m using ArtRage Studio Pro 3.5.4 Windows 7, I cant add any new color palet

[Suni Roveto]

Is the link to these (wonderful) color sets still active?

[Speedy]

I downloaded these sets a couple years ago and I never said thank you. So, thank you!

[muhmantha]

thanks for posting I now use those color sets a lot!

[GwenGlow]

Thank you for sharing your lovely paint pallets.

Gwen