Blair School of Realism News
Keeping you up to date with all the latest painting tips, tricks, supplies, and workshops!
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Included in this issue:- Solving the Blueshift
- Color Buffer Theory in a Box!!
- Stencils on sale this week only
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The Blueshift
Mistakes are inevitable, and sometimes we unintentionally go too dark.
If you've ever attempted to correct a
mistake on a portrait painting using white or any other light paint, you
will discover an unexpected a grey area each time.
How it began
In the world of airbrushing,
this "blueshift" remained a mystery for a long time. It wasn't until the
1990's that the first publication appeared on the subject.
The
shift in color is caused by the white component of a buffered color. A
buffered color is an opaque color resulting from a transparent color
mixed with an opaque white. The word "buffer" comes from the limiting
effect the white paint has on the overall value. A buffered color is
different than opaque paint purchased in stores. Manufactured opaque
paint is not constructed from white and transparent paint, and is
already set to a specific value when you purchase it, and therefore can only be adjusted lighter.
The color shift is blue, hence the term blueshift. The shift
originates in the white pigment molecule, which has a transparent shell,
allowing some light to pass through. The refracted light takes on a
bluish cast, during a phenomenon called floccuation.
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| | | Color Buffer Theory in a Box!
Color Demystified
The long-awaited online solution to color problems has arrived. Presenting the FULL course on color matching, color theory, and error-correcting for airbrush artists.
This is the same content Dru teaches in his workshops, and used by his students all over the world, only we've condensed it into about an hour of video with no extra filler. Just pure content that you can start using immediately.
Take an additional 10% off this week only! Use code HOLIDAY10 on checkout.
We also have a LITE version available.
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| Skin textures aren't just for men.
This painting was created using the Skin 2 Female skin texture stencil and Freckle stencil. Make your skin textures as subtle or as dynamic as you want them to be, with our high-definition skin texture stencils.
Take an additional 10% off all stencils this week only! Use code HOLIDAY10 on checkout.
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