Palettes

A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to attend a workshop lead by Robert Gamblin. Robert is a wonderful artist and a great speaker plus he is just a nice man. It was a pleasure to be in his class. Robert is founder of Gamblin oil colors and while he does not sell any of his oils on his web site, he is so passionate about getting artists to understand his way of explaining color that he has built pages and put together DVD's to help us all.

If you are interested in learning more about Gamblin colors and products, visit www.gamblincolors.com Be sure to look at this page where he explains color and where all colors fit in what he calls color space. I think you will enjoy reading other pages too. http://www.gamblincolors.com/navigating.color.space/index.html

Thinking today about palettes reminded me of a recent newsletter I picked up with the word palette spelled incorrectly. If I remember correctly the name of the newsletter was Pallette News. Mine you, I'm not the greatest speller, but this spelling made me smile thinking that whoever typed the newsletter had stuttering fingers or either the newsletter was going to be about the armpit plates making up a suit of armor. A similar thing happened when an art group was forming and wanted to call themselves Palette Pals. At first the spelling of palette was suggested as pallet which is a small blanket used mostly for children sleeping on the floor. We laughed thinking if we named ourselves Pallet Pals some might think we were a group of sleep mates. (It's a southern thing.) Then palet was suggested, and that didn't work, so we resorted to looking the word up in the dictionary. There are other palettes too... like palate for the roof of your mouth and pallet like the pallet goods are stacked on for transport. After that we all decided that we would have to come up with some way to remember how to spell the word for artist palette, but we never did think of anything.


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