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1530 Sunset Hillside

Phil Chadwick

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March 3rd, 2015 - 08:07 AM

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1530 Sunset Hillside

The human eye can distinguish 2.4 million colours. I am not making that up! The CIE or “Commission internationale de l'éclairage”, established the "CIE 1931 XYZ color space" in 1931. These colours can be plotted and the human eye can differentiate between 2.38 million different colours. A few hundred thousands of these colours would be considered grey - way more than fifty! I choose to use a lot of colour in this painting. Why not when there are more than two million to choose from.

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