Notebook

Notebook, 1993-

Light & Color - [Rainwater, Clarence, Prof. of Physics, San Francisco State College, Original Project Editor Herbert S. Zim, Golden Press, NY, Western Publishing Company, Inc., 1971.]

Principles of Color - [Wong, Wucius. Principles of Color Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1987]

Color - [Harlan, Calvin. Vision & Invention, An Introduction to Art Fundamentals. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1986.]

Color Circle - Color Comparison - Color Properties - Color Stability - Color Wheel - Tinting Strength - Diffraction Color - Chroma - Color Chart - Color Effect - Color Notation - Color Scheme - Iridescence - Munsell System - Opacity / Transparency - Opalescence - Ostwald System - Saturation - Tristimulus Values - [Mayer, Ralph. The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques. Second Edition. Revised and edited by Steven Sheehan, Director of the Ralph Mayer Center, Yale University School of Art. New York: HarperCollins. 1969. 1991.]

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Pigments

Tinting Strength


Tinting Strength is the power of a pigment to tint paints, as measured by its relative strength in coloring a standard white pigment in oil; also called tinctorial power and, in Britain, coloring or staining power. In the test for tinting strength, one part of the pigment is mixed with ten parts of zinc white and ground [as in Rub-Outs] with a measured amount of linseed oil. The results are evaluated by laboratory instruments or by skilled visual comparison with a standard color. This test also reveals the nuances of a pigment's undertone. In general, the high tinting strength of a pigment is an indication of its economy, purity, and superiority over materials of lower strength. However, pigments with excessively high tinting strengths, such as pure Prussian and phthalocyanine blues, tend to create imbalances with other colors unless reduced by adding an inert pigment. [pp. 420-1]

[Mayer, Ralph. The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques. Second Edition. Revised and edited by Steven Sheehan, Director of the Ralph Mayer Center, Yale University School of Art. New York: HarperCollins. 1969. 1991.]




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