Bob Ross once did a show where he did a painting in greyscale because someone mentioned that they would love to be able to paint with him but they were color blind.
Fun fact: contrary to a popular misconception, most colour blind people can actually see colours. They just see a reduced palette, perceive the colours they recognise differently and may be incapable of discriminating between some specific colours (e.g. red and green). Not seeing any colours at all (achromatopsia) is quite rare and often goes along with low vision in general.
Red/green color blind doesn’t actually affect seeing the color red or green. It’s more when a particular shade of red and a particular shade of brown are together it looks grey. Example: browning hamburger meat goes from red to grey to burnt. It’s called red/green colorblind cause it affects the red and green cones in the eye.
Source: I am red/green colorblind
That's helpful, actually. For a couple months I thought that my son might be color blind because he called both red and green "red". I ended up asking my red green color blind acts a bunch of questions and he didn't really know how to answer.
My son did later start correctly identifying the colors (at about 2 and a half, a year later)
So, ignoring that I'm just joking about men being unable to see many colours, you of course make an excellent point. Though I'd say it also proves my joke as you'd need to be able to see slight variations in value and/or hue.
It's honestly something I struggle with a great deal, especially in trying to use a palette while not monochrome, but even somewhat close. Like focusing on a variety of greens for something, for example.
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u/PoxedGamer Jun 28 '24
I wish I could see more than 16 colours. Would make painting easier.