Planning a painting takes time and patience. I used photoshop, the Munsell color system, and color frontier’s color chart utility to help me plan my color palette for Pink Ohara roses. My first step was to import my original photo into photoshop and drop out the colors to better understand the different values. I used the posterzise function to reduce the number of values to 6.
Going back to the original photo in photoshop I used the color picker / eyedropper tool to identify the colors and added them to my color swatches which I printed out.
I mixed the colors using the Munsell system the first step of which is to identify the hue. Photoshop can help with this too. In this case it showed me that I was more in red or red/purple “world” than purple.
Next step was to mix the paint , paint them onto a chart, and label the mixtures. Check out www.colorfrontier.com. Very satisfying.
I am so glad that I have your original. It is in the process of being framed. We love it.