Color Wheel Wednesday

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Risograph printing allows artists to choose primaries outside of the confines of CMYK. This means it's also a medium that demands its own color wheels. This week, I interview Brooklyn artist and riso printer Polly Fossey about her 3D color wheel, a fan-out model based on Ostwald's triangular hue planes and printed entirely in riso ink. We get into "faux CMYK," why riso printers pick their own triads, and how a hue-saturation ink map does a job no traditional wheel can. We'll also discuss Wren McDonald's illustrated riso chart, Travis Shaffer's online ink wheel with Lab values, Risolve Studio's overprint chart, and Polly's own book, 7 Color Contrasts with Risography. This is episode 25 of Color Wheel Wednesday, a series that explores historical and contemporary color wheels as an excuse to wade into the deep end of the color theory pool. LINKS: Polly Fossey's Book, 7 Color Contrasts with Risography: https://www.pollyfossey.com/product-page/7-color-contrasts-with-risography-1 Travis Shaffer's Riso Ink Color Chart website: https://shift.theretherenow.com/colors.html Wren McDonald's Riso Color Chart: https://wrenmcdonald.com/Risograph-27-Color-Chart Risolve's Color Wheel and Overprint Chart: https://risolvestudio.com/collections/riso-guides/products/color-wheel About SVA's Riso Lab: https://risolab.sva.edu/ ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jacobson, Egbert. Basic Color: An Interpretation of the Ostwald Color System. Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1948. Itten, Johannes. The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color. Translated by Ernst van Haagen. New York: Reinhold, 1961. Ostwald, Wilhelm. Die Farbenfibel. 14th ed. Leipzig: Unesma, 1930. Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. Free scan: https://archive.org/details/cu31924008632964