William Curwen observed: > The artists who painted those pictures knew exactly what > colour was what, as most of the pigments used were premixed > above ground. In daylight.
I agree entirely.....thats why I said .....I have a notion that some sort of painting by numbers/colour management system must have been in use...... My point was that they would never have seen the finished paintings as we are able to today. Anyways, an interesting topic which has been fun to explore. The Egyptology departnment of the British Museum arte also interested and have provided me with a copy of an original drawing (found in a Tomb at Thebes) of the sort of animal fat lamps that might have been used at that time. Colour management in Ancient Egypt, fascinating stuff.........however I fear it is now becoming difficult to maintain this On Topic unless the colour balancing delights of PS etc can be further explored ! Tony Riley (surrey) "WYSIWYG is a pigment of the imagination". > > As for why I wanted to do this in the first place, I > thought it would > > be interesting to try and see how some of the paintings in > the tombs > > at the Valley of The Kings might have looked to the people that > > painted them.I have a notion that some sort of painting by >numbers/colour management system must have been in use as > the colours > > would have looked radically different deep underground with only > > animal fat lanterns as spot light sources. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
