Had to do this as a printer to match customer supplied artwork but would record everything by weight so it was easy to replicate on repeat orders. It is very gratifying when you nail that shit though!
This isn't that hard. Watch how he keeps adding white and black to even it out. Anyone can do it with enough trial and error. Hell, I suck at colors and have done this plenty of times for MtG card alters
I'm not trying to be a jerk, I honestly am curious... How is 'combining dyes to make a color' different from color mixing? If the dyes have color and you are combining them to produce another color, that's color mixing.
SleepyEyeMinnesota
Had to do this as a printer to match customer supplied artwork but would record everything by weight so it was easy to replicate on repeat orders. It is very gratifying when you nail that shit though!
Gestalted
That looks like an expensive experiment
WhatsY0urFavoriteIdea
Theatrical but impressive, wow
Maelwrath
I feel like a little bit of theatrics makes a skill even more impressive, but maybe I am just a dramatic bitch
chrish066
That's impressive. My color blind ass almost failed color theory in school....
strangeassfiction
This was extremely relaxing and made me very happy. Please make more of these videos
zubax
This explains nothing.
Totters
I'm legit red-green colourblind, so, this was more an auditory experience for me. The sound of wet paint slapping wet paint is... relaxing.
tanebot
He's colour matching.
AR33
Make purple and add white or black to adjust
a2s2020
This is partly why a painting of what looks like just one colour can hang in a gallery and be called art, bc the painter worked hard on it
RunawaySpoons
The scratches on the board make me uncomfortable.
Snooj
I would have been more impressed without the cut just before the spread. He could have tried multiple times from a different paint source.
fredhoffman1968
ink is mixed by weight and a formula ..that person is just playing
Convolutions
Exactly.
rbudrick
Tiffany (the stained glass guy) used to hire exclusively women bc they have far better judgement of hues. Only women can have 4 color cones
comacomacomacomachameleon
i like the *wet slapping* sound
explodinghatchback
Is he available to help match my foundation?
efemral
When I paint I spend about 90% of my time mixing the colours, 8% time getting the paint on the brush properly, and 2% putting it on canvas.
vintagebroad
Magic
Wolfy4226
BabyBumbleBee3
That color will change as it dries tho
Craizie
I'm colorblind. I dont think Im gonna be able to finish this one boss
BendOverAndIllShowYa
Yellow and blue make green
sniggly5212
KaijuMcCitysmash
I usually just go down to ace and point out the color I want on a card then they put it in a shaker for a bit then I bring it home
RegularAnemone
xj4low
Auto body shops go clean a spot, was and clay debris off, then hold up a device flat to the surface and it hits it with several lights (1
xj4low
2) then it saves a color match code to mix in the paint booth. Takes 5-10 minutes.
Istealfromthefrontpage
I worked detail for Toyota for years and the satisfaction of using the clay bar before and after... kept me going at times.
xj4low
3) It's called a spectrophotometer. Very usefull when a car color could have a dozen variations. Think that is just silver? Wrong.
ImNotStalkingYouBTWYoureOutOfMilk
Only really useful when the car's colour has been changed at some point, since the standard is printed on a plate under the bonnet (hood)
xj4low
Some manufacturers will have variations of the same color code. Could be up to a dozen depending on color batch at time.
satsukeshi
Except for aging, especially if clear coat is compromised
IronMansRightHand
A lot of it is due to the sun changing the factory color over time
APackOfExcitedGingers
This isn't that hard. Watch how he keeps adding white and black to even it out. Anyone can do it with enough trial and error. Hell, I suck at colors and have done this plenty of times for MtG card alters
OnlyByMoonlight
Dude's name is Sherwin Williams
TheRockDude
color me impressed, i guess
LordHosk
I like the part where he cuts out the obvious multiple failed mixes he tried that weren't quite right before he added more blue and white.
szepasszony
I thought maybe he filmed this backwards, made the color, then found a card that matched.
kramorp
Notice how he keeps adding paint, but the main blob doesn't seem to grow much? That's the excess paint, not failed mixes.
suzelloozel1978
Did he just mix green, black and white paint to make purple?
imakesoap
Somehow the blue paint addition to the blob was not shown, but when he mixes the blob, you can see a pure blue streak
sarcazem
Not black, Dioxazine Purple. It’s such a dark purple that it looks black, but you can see the color once he starts smooshing it around
superfluffysheep
Ah I didn't notice that. That's heckin' cheating.
efemral
Green is blue+yellow. The yellow component is opposite the vibrant dark purple he slapped on. It 'greys' out the vibrancy.
BenderBenderBender
*Green, dark blue, white, and a little cobalt blue. But yes. 99% of his color matching videos start with green.
Gerokeymaster
it's RGB for a reason. you can make a lot of things with green as a base...
beauFORTRESS
Isn't RGB just for additive colour? So like lights, but not physical colours (light reflecting off of pigment)?
Ulthirm
Green is so exceptionally common in nature that our eyes are really good at observing it and bias with it, so even tho CYMK is more accurate
Ulthirm
Neither are actually accurate to the human eye. RGB is good for screens using lights, as the lights add, CYMK is good for things intended
Gerokeymaster
Crap, you're right. CMYK is for actual non-digital color. So he's back to being just magic...
VictusVonGuyver
*Pantone Colors wants a word with you .
fuckcats
thats not reallly color theory. its just understanding how to mix colors.
AGrammeIsBetterThanADamn
"that's not color theory, that's just applied theory of colors"
TheBlueMuppet
Judean people's front. SPLITTERS!
ghettosoak
I was taught that color theory is how to use colors together effectively
MotionOfTheOcean
Ot also is what colors go together and how they effect perception of pther colors
aloharamada
+ It takes him a long ass time and he has to scrape a lot off and add more white constantly because that's not how you mix a light color.
Senguie
Like I felt it was a lot of paint to get to colour he wanted.
MotionOfTheOcean
It depends how much he needs it. It is better to try to mix enough than keep mixing more since the batches varybtiny bit. But yeah
debradQueen
But why does he start with green?
TarynnosaurusRex
Because purple + green = blue. The sample is a blue-toned purple. It's in Spanish (subs) but this goes in depth https://youtu.be/85hRJSY66zI
debradQueen
Highly interesting read, Thank you. Violet is different than purple. Pigment colors are different than light spectrum colors. My art learns.
debradQueen
My brain just exploded. Red + blue = purple. Yellow + blue = green. Primary colors being red blue yellow. Blue + orange would be gray...ahhh
TheBlueMuppet
Keep in mind, RBY is for real world reflective colors. Emissive colors like computers use are RGB. Print uses CMYK for...reasons.
TheFishFace
RYB is a traditional system taught in schools that would probably be easily and more accurately replaced by CMY.
sirfanciesadrought
That's just the start bro. I'm sure you'll enjoy learning more.
license2kilt
It also helps that the number on the card will tell you the formula.
ChipWallace
Not really, he's not using normal mix base colors. Even if he was he'd have to mix them in precise amounts.
kramorp
In the visual arts, color theory is the body of practical guidance for color mixing and the visual effects of a specific color combination.
fryedman
which of course is not the same as combining dyes to make a color
kramorp
I'm not trying to be a jerk, I honestly am curious... How is 'combining dyes to make a color' different from color mixing? If the dyes have color and you are combining them to produce another color, that's color mixing.
fryedman
I can explain using segregation. A mixed color drinking fountain does not mean the fountain should only be for people of mixed race. https://www.maxrambod.com/pictures/medium/17742.jpg
CaldariBob
That quote is the first thing that comes up on Google for me, too.
zeacorzeppelin10
Slap that paint down
gosjims
Seems like trial and error to me? Like there was a LOT of mixing. Still cool, but just seems like a regular old part of painting?
spiderzim
Pretty much. They teach us to throw globs of paint and do those sick-ass spins on the first day of color theory class.
68niou1
Reminds me of when I worked for Sherwin-Williams in the 90's and had to do color matching by eye.
PubMed12927120suckssobad
Rough, dude. Rough.
68niou1
LOL
shackman
Uncle was captain of ac-130 in Vietnam. Had a very bad time. After he worked at a SW. God of color-matching. He said it kept him calm.
shackman
Refused to be even lowest management because he could never have anyone under him again. This helped me understand him a bit more =( =( =(
shackman
It is calming.
priorititties
Add 1/64 of umber.. trust me. /s
68niou1
LOL I understand that!
warriorofdiscord
We have a fancy machine that does it for us now. And then we get old gobs that come in and think they do it better by eye and fuck it up.
LordOfAllImgur
Customers? Or older employees? I’ve never seen a place that would let a customer match their own, but it would be fun to play with. Once.
warriorofdiscord
If the painter is well-known at the store, they'll ask for specific additions. Older employees as well, yes.
LordOfAllImgur
Gotcha. Thanks!
NCDoofus
Hey! Me, too! Except I was colormatching in powder coatings, not paint. But still for Uncle Sherwin
68niou1
Nice.
slack3rdav3
yo you have any old catalogs from then? Trying to identify exactly the color for a car painted in the 80s with SW automotive paint.
68niou1
I do not. Besides, the automotive division is completely separate.
faultysage
That's nothing, I worked for Behr back in the 70s and we had to do it by smell since everything was still in black and white.
jimfalconer611
Ahhh those beautiful lead fumes
bro02tc
Reminds me of child hood when we did it by taste lost a few friends back in those days. We continued the hard fight and lead the way
XanderCorsaj
My folks said they dreamed in black and white before colour television. That's wild, right? Also, like your comment, faulty sage 😊
ArnoldRimmerWhatAGuy
I dream in black and white a lot of times.
Gerthquake
anothergingerbeardman
Yeah those browns were the worst
harthram
That's nothing. In the 20s nobody could talk. We had to wait for giant cards to magically appear to understand each other.
volch1tsa
But at least you got piano music
MrPappagiorgioFromYuma
0570
Quizz25S
That's nothing, I worked for Valspar back in the 50s and we had to do it by taste. Turns out with enough lead you can taste colors.
68niou1
Anyway. My favorite part was getting to name the colors we made. I recall hooker lips red, and fake-n-beige.
IGotsDemGoodies
I love that you continued your story by replying to that comment. Like you were interrupted by a moron in a corner of the room🤣🤣
sirfanciesadrought
Exactly! And that person's comment seemed more like one upping.
RedWingedBlackbirds
I thought it was funny
68niou1
Someone gets me and all the sudden I'm uncomfortable feeling seen.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Wonder what smell hooker red lips was?
Dahliaisahedgehog
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
That's fake n biege