For One Artist, Colorblindness Opened Up A World Of Black And White
Mary’s Turn – engraving by Peter Milton “Colors can cheat the eye but sumi (black pigment) never can; it proclaims the master and exposes the tyro” – Henry Bowie, in On the Laws...
Category: Colorblind artists
Trials and tribulations of being a colorblind art, adaptive strategies, list of colorblind artists
A black and white artist in a color world
While researching on the web about colorblind artists, I came across a post in which an art student (who was partially colorblind) asked if he could be successful if he just produced black and...
Known and suspected colorblind artists – a list
Frank Dunne cartoon of a Digger Known and Suspected! That makes us sound sinister, doesn’t it? Here is a listing of some artists who are colorblind—gleaned from a few days research on the...
Painting myself into a box – Adaptive strategies for the colorblind artist
In my last post on this subject I said that people who are partially colorblind can differ widely in their ability to see color. Those who are only mildly affected may have little if...
Painting myself into a box – the colorblind artist
I am partially colorblind, or perhaps more accurately, color confused. The cones in my eyes that detect red and green are either missing or are calibrated differently or are deficient in some aspect....
