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Post by nangwaya on Apr 26, 2020 13:05:13 GMT
I like going to this site to give me a reminder about what colours go well together, especially when I am using more than two colours near each other, say for a robe with some frills and a sash:
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Post by timurilank on Apr 26, 2020 14:16:42 GMT
The colour wheel is good to use.
I found Marco Frisoni’s channel of great value.
Many of Marco’s videos were viewed before starting the restoration of my Arab collection.
This helped as I lost no time deciding what colours to use for each army.
Focused, the four double sized commands took each one week to paint.
Contrast and Light
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY5x9m3NOgw&list=PLQybQSJNR3RVYgdwXfQFugcjrC6xX_9Jo&index=2&t=0s
In this video he describes five ways to demonstrate contrast in your painting.
Note his most important principle (12.38).
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Post by jdesmond on May 6, 2020 10:28:02 GMT
Salutations, gentlefolk ! One of things I've thought of is having overall 'color scheme' for opposing armies. For example, the Ancient British theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=527112 are in reds / tans / golds while the Picts (photos coming Real Soon Now) are predominantly in blues and grays Am thinking of doing (five-year plan) 'NW Europeans 800-1150' in reds and blues, Arabs predominantly greens and golds. Thoughts  |
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Post by Roland on May 6, 2020 13:22:00 GMT
Salutations, gentlefolk ! One of things I've thought of is having overall 'color scheme' for opposing armies. For example, the Ancient British theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=527112 are in reds / tans / golds while the Picts (photos coming Real Soon Now) are predominantly in blues and grays Am thinking of doing (five-year plan) 'NW Europeans 800-1150' in reds and blues, Arabs predominantly greens and golds. Thoughts Sure. If I may, I'll add my thought processes when approaching a new army to the conversation here. 1. I try to keep my color palette focused and resist having too many colors and pay attention to color triads, adjacent colors, and colors opposite on the color wheel. 2 Since we're painting small scale I try extra hard to honor the rule of "Chroma" and avoid heavily saturated colors. Instead doing lots of tinting ( mixing with white), toning( mixing with grey) and shading ( mixing with black). If you want the look of your army to stay warm subbing cream or beige for white and grey and brown for black where color appropriate helps. 3. I like to go back to the source material available. Not so much Ospreys and Ian Heath books, but original sources images. In the case of armies I paint the most ( various medieval armies) this means book illuminations, triptychs and paintings. making allowance for the time the work was made and the period its depicting, it informs me as to what colors people of the period liked working with and helps evoke the period. Anyway... Its what goes through my head when I'm trying to wrap my brain around a project.  |
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Post by Cromwell on May 7, 2020 8:26:23 GMT
I don't have any colour combinations.
I just wear standard white.
Perhaps it's my age,
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Post by sheffmark on May 7, 2020 8:32:18 GMT
I don't have any colour combinations. I just wear standard white. Perhaps it's my age, I'd have thought Cromwell was Puritan Black? |
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Post by sheffmark on May 7, 2020 8:39:13 GMT
I remember having an interesting discussion with a lady at a re-enactment camp about dyes and colours etc. She'd done a lot of research into the colours available in Anglo Saxon times and basically it was the standard cream's beige and greys of raw cloth along with some russets, browns and pale yellows and greens. There was a pale blue which was feasible but very difficult to produce in any great quantities.
Of course older civilisations may have had other source materials and techniques since forgotten, but the thing that struck me from her samples was that none of the colours were particularly bright. Most had a 'washed out' look to them.
On the other hand do we really want armies that look that drab on the battlefield?
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Post by jeffreythancock on May 7, 2020 22:28:55 GMT
Luckily, dirt, dust, grime, and blood haven't changed color much in 1000 years!
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Post by Haardrada on May 8, 2020 0:43:43 GMT
I remember having an interesting discussion with a lady at a re-enactment camp about dyes and colours etc. She'd done a lot of research into the colours available in Anglo Saxon times and basically it was the standard cream's beige and greys of raw cloth along with some russets, browns and pale yellows and greens. There was a pale blue which was feasible but very difficult to produce in any great quantities. Of course older civilisations may have had other source materials and techniques since forgotten, but the thing that struck me from her samples was that none of the colours were particularly bright. Most had a 'washed out' look to them. On the other hand do we really want armies that look that drab on the battlefield? I've always thought that the image of full dress uniform or parade ground gleeming metal would be a million miles away from the sodden,dusty and stained reality of a campaigned soldiers outfit after 3 days march. Lol |
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Post by mark leslie on May 8, 2020 4:16:53 GMT
Luckily, dirt, dust, grime, and blood haven't changed color much in 1000 years! If war has a colour, it's certainly shit. |
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Post by goragrad on May 8, 2020 4:47:07 GMT
In a discussion over on TMP some time ago Gurkhan (Duncan Head) noted that men tended to wear their best when going to war. Might get dulled and dirty on a longer campaign, but would start out with some color. Over at Regia Anglorum this article states that the clothing would be reasonably colorful - regia.org/research/life/textiles.htmregia.org/research/images/artefacts/DyedWools.jpgThen there is this Celtic history site with a long list of natural dyes available in Ireland and Scotland - www.marariley.net/celtic/SentToKass/Dyes.htmAnd as to the day of battle, at Thermopylae the Spartan are noted as having spent some time before battle doing their hair. At which point I imagine they also took some care with their clothing and equipment. |
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