Tagged: Colorblindness

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...

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....