Review on 🔍 Cottage Mills Color Evaluator II: Enhance Your Vision with Red and Green Filters by Kim Sanchez

These two little clear plastic strips are great tools to help you choose the right colors for your art project by identifying light and dark tones. middle in between. The stripes, both red and green, are made of thick plastic that actually feels as heavy as glass. Placed over an object (artwork, fabric, photo, etc.), the strip decreases in color and shows the values (from light to dark). For warm colors, use a red stripe. For cool colors use green. To use, hold one of the strips in front of the item's material and look at the image through the strip. Sometimes closing one eye helps. The areas seen by the filter as the darkest will become the most noticeable (darkest) in your final project. Likewise, the areas that are considered the lightest will be the lightest in your finished work. And averages. The same thing. I find them useful when painting landscapes in the field. Normally my eye can see the darkest areas, but a couple of times I was surprised at what the filter showed. At the very least, it validates the choices you've already made when choosing color values. An artist friend of mine has an old pair of glasses with special red acetate lenses that he uses for portraits. Yes, they look silly, but he doesn't wear them for the entire painting session. Especially when he needs to determine which areas on the model are the lightest and then go back to his drawing to make sure those areas stand out. as the lightest in his painting. Until I can find (or make) my own pair of red acetate glasses I'll be content with these Cottage Mills color filters. Fabric types, but should be able to identify the same value in each color family.