Halation is Not Magic, rather it’s…
A pile of color swatches were placed in front of us and we were told to organize them. We slid the paper color squares around on the table, trying to find relationship. As we would learn, we were ordering families of color. Each array was made up of two parent colors and their children.
Color harmony, often considered intuitive, can be hacked.
A great insight occurred when my teacher held in his hand three cards.
Only two colors were visible.
The red (more of an orange-red), behind the yellow.
As if teaching the rules of a card game, my professor leaned in to show me his hand.