...a sentiment I, more often than not, believe... there are so many shades of gray in most situations in life, things are rarely just Black and White.. and if you look, you will see my largely black and white painting has a shade of celadon in the lip of the bowl and a smidge of red too :) If you have read a few of my previous posts, you remember my musings about rainbows.. So this painting is in response to those paintings and here is the enjoyable reason why...
If you mix all of the wavelengths of the electro magnetic spectrum together, combined they make White Light.
and..
when dealing with pigment and paint, for example, all of the colors of paint mixed together gives you Black..
Its Never Just Black and White, oil, 9"x12", click here for purchasing details
I found this explanation on a Reddit and think it describes the phenomenon pretty well:
Light is additive color and paint is subtractive. When you paint something green, you're not exactly "putting green" on the object but instead putting a substance that reflects only green and absorbs the other colors. Thus, our eyes see the object as green. If you mix all the colors of paint together you get black because you've created a substance that subtracts (absorbs) all the colors and to us, an absence of light is seen as black. With light, you're combining colors and not removing them. That's why when you mix all additive colors
it's perceived by our eyes as white. So if you think about it, white light is the most colorful color.
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