Education and demonstration – Visual art or craft – artistic adornment – or color training... – Color display
Patent
1991-08-22
1993-05-11
Mancene, Gene
Education and demonstration
Visual art or craft, artistic adornment, or color training...
Color display
206 18, 434 84, 434 98, G09B 1110
Patent
active
052096645
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to an artist's palette.
Hitherto artist's palettes have given little or no guidance concerning the mixing of colours. Generally the artist when mixing colours applies them in a random fashion, or according to personal preference on the palette. The palette being an unmarked surface on which to apply colour and mix. Guidance on the mixing of the colours usually being taken from the Three Primary System which is taught universally. In fact there are no true primary colours. Each blue has a bias towards violet or green, each yellow has a bias towards orange or green and each red has a bias towards violet or orange. By providing three pairs of designated areas on a palette it is possible to place the appropriately biased "primary" colours in an arrangement which guides the artist in the mixing of the colours.
Thus in one form the invention resides in an artist's palette of any suitable configuration having at least three pairs of designated areas in an adjacent relationship; each pair of designated areas being provided to receive a first colour; each designated area of each pair having directional indicia towards the adjacent pair of designated areas, each designated area of each pair being provided to receive a first colour with an second colour bias wherein adjacent designated areas of adjacent pairs having directional indicia towards each other and receive a first colour having a common second colour bias; said palette having at least three areas, each area positioned between adjacent pairs of designated areas; each area being provided to receive a second colour created by combining the first colours having a common second colour bias in adjacent designated areas.
In another form the invention resides in a colour mixing guide comprising an artist's palette of the form as described above.
The invention will be better understood by reference to the following description of one specific embodiment thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings in which;
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the upper surface of the palette;
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the upper surface of the palette;
FIG. 3 is a plan view of the upper surface of the palette with the primary colours in place;
FIG. 4 is a plan view of the upper surface of the palette illustrating how a pure intermediate colour is formed;
FIG. 5 is a plan view of the upper surface of the palette illustrating how a neutralized intermediate colour is formed; and
FIG. 6 is a plan view of the upper surface of the palette illustrating how to darken a pure intermediate colour.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
As shown in FIG. 1 and 2 the main working area of the palette is of circular configuration and is provided with the usual thumb hole H and with three pairs of designated areas A, B, C in the form of recesses 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 located equidistantly and in an adjacent relationship around the palette. The pairs of recesses are provided to receive a primary colour as follows:
Each recess is provided with directional indicia whereby one end of each recess is arrow shaped and pointing to the adjacent pair of recesses.
Each recess of each pair is to receive a primary colour with an intermediate colour bias wherein adjacent recesses of adjacent pairs which are directed to each other by means of the arrow shaped recess ends receives a primary colour with a common intermediate colour bias. Each designated area is marked for example printed or embossed, with a description of the colours to be placed in them as illustrated in FIG. 3.
In area A which receives the primary colour red, recess 11 receives red with an orange bias and recess 12 receives red with a violet bias.
In area B which receives the primary colour blue, recess 13 receives blue with a violet bias and recess 14 receives blue with a green bias.
In area C which receives the primary colour yellow, recess 15 receives yellow with a green bias and recess 16 receives yellow with an orange bias.
The palette is also provi
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Mancene Gene
Thomas L.
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