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It is virtually always more important to use the correct value in an area than to use the correct color. This idea, once considered, is so freeing that it opens up one’s use of colors exponentially. [...]

The human eye can distinguish more shades of green than any other color. For artists this is a blessing and a curse. We can easily recognize when greens are ‘wrong’ in a painting in the same way that we can recognize when the human face or figure is wrong. It’s not so much that these things are harder to paint, but that we’re better at detecting when things are off. [...]