color
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Newton's color theory is just wrong for artists, and yet it is taught to
artist students, why?  Goethe said that it is not the absence of
darkness that creates colors,  but, rather, it is the interaction of light
and darkness by which the Universe paints our world.  I have only to
watch a sunrise or a sunset to verify this.  Sure, I do teach Itten's
theory, too, because the four seasons are easy to experience and talk
about while color waves are far-away abstractions
are to be talked
about and not drawn with.
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