Chuck Close
has long been a fine artist that I've appreciated and enjoyed. His work
often strikes me as having an unusually high level of technical
proficiency. His
giant portraits
created with multi-colored or multi-toned grids of nested forms shows
the principles of additive color mixing perfectly and are striking and
unique pieces. His life and works have been previously covered in a
radio interview from 2004. Now the
GTD crowd
can hear this interview and think process, persistence and productivity
given adversity. In comparison a color scientist can hear it, poke
around his
web site some and think: yowza he does all this and 12-color separations, too!
Going to his web page and looking at the online notes for his 2000 self-portrait/scribble/etching
shows a process that looks like masterful sequence of color
separations. In qualitative terms the process looks like it starts with
light magenta, light blue, light orange and light green. Next are the
blue, magenta, cyan and orange separations. Finally are the green,
black, yellow and dark green separations. At each step is a visual
representation of the sepration, next to a cummulative representation
of the process to that point and then the combination of the two.
Although only approximate it is amazing to consider the color formation
and results and consider these results were achieved, most likely,
without any matrices or mathematics.
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