Colour Blindness

[littlerick]

Well I gotta confess to being TOTALY colour blind.. I am blind with red, green and brown... Not sure if anyone else has the problem, but, if so... How do you work round the colour to make it right?

I can paint something that looks great to me, but to everyone else it must look kinda weird. As a example of what i see... A summer sunset, with the awesome reds and oranges to a regular person, looks to me like a range of greens and purples.

Most people say "what colour is that" when told.... Kinda like asking someone who is completely blind to describe a mountain they have never seen!

 

[_fly_]

maybe stick with monotones. can't go wrong there and they look just as effective.
I have carpet that to me looks like a button mushroom grey, other people tell me its a light pink colour.

 

[Mr.Micron]

You are just red green color blind , Total color blindness means you would see the world in black and white.
A lot of men are red /green color blind and only 5% of women suffer from it.
If you get a chance to take Dru Blair's color theory class he can teach you to still match the color even being color blind.
I suffer from red green color blindness. But have learned to work past it. Mainly you have to have the desire to want to try to learn different ways to mix paint or colors.
Some pinks will appear gray , Some greens will appear orange .
Now the hard question what color do pure red cars look to you?
Remember how you see the color is how it should look to you when it is mixed.

 

[Immortal Concepts]

Also to add, even us "color viewing people" see the same colors differently. I've had many arguments over if a color is blue or purple. This is why some people can eyeball colors better than others because of the ability to see colors within colors that others don't see. My dad is a great example of that, he can look at a paint color and instantly mix it without even looking back at it again.

 

[matty171]

Also to add, even us "color viewing people" see the same colors differently. I've had many arguments over if a color is blue or purple. This is why some people can eyeball colors better than others because of the ability to see colors within colors that others don't see. My dad is a great example of that, he can look at a paint color and instantly mix it without even looking back at it again.

I watched a programme couple years back about how people see colours different, it was saying that in africa the people see more shades of greens and browns than any other humans because of their surroundings, i wish i could remember what it was called cause it was really good and some amazing facts in it.

 

[Immortal Concepts]

I watched a programme couple years back about how people see colours different, it was saying that in africa the people see more shades of greens and browns than any other humans because of their surroundings, i wish i could remember what it was called cause it was really good and some amazing facts in it.

The himba tribe. BBC horizons do you see what I see

 

[basepaint]

I'm going to have to look that up! sound's like a good one

 

[littlerick]

I did a colour blind test... 37 test circles... I managed to get 7 of them... My wife could see them all.

 

[matty171]

The himba tribe. BBC horizons do you see what I see

Bingo! That was it, i take it youve seen it then Justin?

 

[Immortal Concepts]

I know I have but I was so stoned I don't remember it. Found it just now on youtube but all of them are shutdown for copyright infringement

 

[matty171]

I know I have but I was so stoned I don't remember it. Found it just now on youtube but all of them are shutdown for copyright infringement

i was stoned wen i seen it too thats why i can only remember that one bit, aye the bbc dont take any shi t wen it comes to copyright, we have to pay a tv licence fee every year because of them, well meant to pay. Ill see if i can track it down

 

[matty171]

I know I have but I was so stoned I don't remember it. Found it just now on youtube but all of them are shutdown for copyright infringement

I'm going to have to look that up! sound's like a good one

i found that video and have downloaded it, could i post it on here for you guys to download?

 

[RebelAir]

I wouldn't Matty if its a peer to peer download m8, might get the big fella in trouble...and I'd love to see how anyone can teach someone who's color blind to that degree to color match..You could indeed by an extremly large range of color so most of your needs are covered and utilizing the name have some idea on its shade but wld still be quite hard, there is a lot of work out there for B&W stuff and monotone as mentioned, perhaps just stick to them until you get the hang of airbrushing and then experiment with some color, heck being color blind in some sense could also be an advantage as you could come up with some very nice artistic effects that are different to the norm..best of luck

 

[Immortal Concepts]

It's surprising how many people are colorblind, and many won't admit it. I had a history teacher that we found out he was c blind because he was trying to find something on the map and we were all yelling it's the yellow one and he finally told us. I also had a mechanic I was training a few years ago who was struggling with fixing a wire on a turn signal. I was all dude its simple left turn is yellow and right turn is green. He then explained he was completely colorblind. That also explained why all his tattoos were B&W, and why one was filled with hot pink. He didn't know it and the artist had fornicateed with him knowing he couldn't tell the difference.

 

[crewchief227]

When I was in my first painting class in college awhile ago we had a guy that was color blind and a girl that was partly color blind. The girl did a painting of her little cousin and she actually had friends and family guide her when mixing paint. The guy painted a few amazing mono chromatic paintings, as the most important thing in painting is being able to read value and not color necessarily. For his final painting he did a sky and none of the colors fit into what you would think about, the blue was purple, and so on. Art does not have to fit into some sort of correct package, if you are color blind then use it to your advantage and concentrate on value and light. Look at Monet's "haystacks" series of paintings, the colors are not typical but you can still tell which season is which.