SELF-HELP IN COLOUR TRAINING

Practise earnestly the drills in general physical, mental and visual relaxation in the first part of the book, accenting sunning, palming and swinging

Work in daylight rather than artificial light. Use white paper and a -box. of water-colour paints with the three primary colours: red, yellow and 'blue. Ask a friend -with good colour perception to help you paint three parallel bands of prime red, prime yellow and prime blue. Paint these bands about two inches wide and leave two inches of white, paper space between them. These are the three primary colours which exist in, nature and which you cannot mix by combiuing any other colours. Visit them. Get the feeling of difference. Label 0-term in pencil. After the primes have thoroughly dried, mix combinations of equal parts of red and yellow which will make orange, of blue and yellow which will be green, and of red and blue which makes violet-the three secondary colours. Paint each of these three combinations -orange, orange, green, violet as two-inch bands between the three primary colours.

1. When theso colours dry, cut a two-inch square off the , end of each band and lay these in the order of the rainbow red,
2. orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. Label them and number them on the backs. Carry them in an envelope in your pocket. Get them out frequently and lay them in order. Soon, you will not have to look at the name or number on the back; you will just. how and where they should lie.
3. Next, search: for coloured pictures in magazines for :;More intense examples of each of your six squares, ,deeper examples of the same colours. Cut out these bits of colour and label them. Have someone verify for you.
4. Pick things in nature to match each colour square; rose, orange fruit, yellow butter, green grass, blue , violet egg plant.
5. gaze with a colourwise friend before . Window rists, shops and fruit and vegetable stands, pointing t and naming different colours.
6. Do the same in front of department-store windows. notice and try to analyse and name the colours in each fume displayed.
7. Once colour-educated, in preparation for the Ishi Hari- test, you really should have a lesson from an art instructor to enable you to recognise the subtlety of the tertiary colours of which those tricky dots are composed. The charts are confusing to the- unwary eye which is attracted to light and dark instead of to the contrasts in colour. Being advised of this, determine the colour of the background on which the numbers are printed and pay attention only to the background colour, even if sometimes light or sometimes dark, and the numbers will stand out in contrast. Breathe deeply and blink often. Travel fast over each colour plate. Glance away between pages. Close your eyes before looking again. And remember that fear of not passing the test may turn off your vision. So relax as you learned to do in the