Final day of Kerry Dunn workshop

Local color ( colour)

Thinking of local color.

By definition it the true color of an object.

Like a red rubber ball or a rose that might look a little purple in a shadow but is really red.

What the color is that is not being  changed by light , either a cool north light or a hot indoor bulb.

That's what is written.

I question, do we really know what a true local color is?

All objects absorb or reflect some sort of light. 

I know the ball is red, that's what I have been taught. 

Is it truly red?

And when it comes to skin color... With ones skin, constantly absorbing and reflecting color from around the  atmosphere , varies with each person skin and degrees of translucency, how can one find a true local color?

Hmmmm....

So when I'm being told by an instructor to paint the local color... By brain goes into a panick ....I dive into the depths of uncertainty . What is the local color....do I need to be that concerned with it?

I liked it better when I just painted what I saw, no mater how wrong " in theory" it was.

This constint search for the " meaning of life" thru my art might just paralyze my creativity. 

Which it may have already done.