Caroline Jasper's COLOR SHIFTS chart illustrates two diverse approaches to combining colors.

Color shifts to slightly warmer or cooler versions depending upon color added. Center column paints arranged in color wheel sequence (all Holbein Artists' Oil Colors) are Caroline's favorites. In left and right columns, each color combines with colors posted two above and two below it in the center. The square swatch between mixed and mingled areas indicates color added, also identified by name immediately above or below it.

MIXED or MINGLED color-combining methods produce very different visual effects. Mixed color is less vibrant than if colors are mingled, unmixed.

When two colors are MIXED, a resulting third color exhibits characteristics of both parent colors. This method follows long standing traditions in painting, whether mixed on palette before applying to canvas or painted wet-into-wet directly on canvas. Once blended, parent color identities can only be surmised.

When two colors are MINGLED, a third color is merely implied visually (a-la-Seurat). This "divided" or "broken" color method was commonly used by the Impressionists. Not literally mixed, colors keep their straight-from-the-tube appearance. One color is applied first and allowed to dry. The second color is dabbled on allowing underlying color to show between marks.

18" x 12", with INTRUCTION SHEET
Available only from the artist
                                                                  

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