How do I become employed as an expert on color?
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There are a number of possible choices.  Some require an advanced degree and some only need experience or guts.\n\nTeaching at a local 2-year college (either regular curriculum or adult ed) usually open doors.\n\nMake a deal with a ghost writer and do book on Interior Design.  Another possibility is to open a web site for similar purposes.  This is a good way to catch work over a very wide area.\n\nVisit all of your local home furnishing retailer (not furniture stores, but those whose do design and sell the nic-nacs as well).  Check out the possibility of working either with or through one of them.  A box of business cards would help here.\n\nUpscale paint retail outlets might be another place to check.  Here the idea may be to learn where then get their wholesale supplies to backtrack to the manufacturer.\n\nVisit the on-line employment sites or do a search for “color experts.”  You will find some interesting information in a short period of time.  See one such site below:
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Add a touch, a little touch of red to yellow, this may help, if applied thinly it can look like skin.\n\nAlways work using light to dark, so if a light colour doesn't work you can go over it.\n\nAlso try different colours, you may find that playing with ideas lead you to other pieces of art, it is also a good way to get to know the paint you are using, how to mix to get light/dark colours etc.\n\nAlso never use white, it makes the colour look to solid, and takes away from the pictures quality
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Ahhh, an artist.  Kinsman, of sorts.  My advice, take the decent-paying job.  Use it---buy oils, pastels, canvas, and all your supplies that it will take to get enough work together that you can have a show if someone "discovers" you.   Who knows:  There may be a person in that company's marketing department looking for an artist's work for the corporate building foyer!  You never know what people you will meet outside you studio that will help you get a show for you work.\n\nSometimes we have to eat turnips to stay alive long enough to appreciate the greens.\n\nBeing a starving artist on television is romantic.  Being one in real life is next to impossible in this day and age.  Use the  job as a means to your artistic "end."  Just think of all the inspiration you can get even on a boring 9-to-5 job!  The faces of the robot people grinding it out, day after day; the colors in the huge windows that wrap the concrete in pseudo-serenity!  The wonderful sounds of paper and machines biting at the air.  My goodness.....what a resource.\n\nUse the job----do your best at it (don't be a thief of your employer's wages).  But know that while you're there, you're working toward a dream---a goal.   There's nothing wrong with that!\n\n"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things." ~ Edgar Degas\n\n\nGood luck!!!
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I know this isnt the question you asked: make sure you get a paint that sticks.  \n\nYou could easily spray a layer of primer on, typically a darker gray, then paint on whatever you want.  The point is that your new material is thick enough all around that light isnt soaked into the darker base.\n\nYield and control are totally dependent on your system comprised of "tools, materials, methods, and people".  Without understanding the system its hard to make an estimate.  \n\nIf you cant make a numerical estimate, you should try running the process for a couple of days, and see what you can make.
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Try doing flame tests; adding certain compounds to fire make really awesome colors; it's kind of like putting on your own fireworks show.  Check out http://webmineral.com/help/FlameTest.shtml
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Use a 3-panel display board, and remember that color attracts the eye, and hand made attracts a higher grade. Make colorful graphs on stuff like the average rainfall per year. Include some weird laws in your state, such as "A PARENT CAN BE ARRESTED IF HIS CHILD CAN'T HOLD BACK A BURP IN A CHURCH SERVICE" that by the  way was an actual law that I found on http://www.passapage.com/laws.html.
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you're doing it now.\nAsk questions, read books, learn a variety of topics.\ntalk to the smartest folks you know, about what they know, pick bits and pieces up. take classes, learn about things through a variety of occupations. Focus on what you are most interested in and become an expert.
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You may not realize it but in one qhestion you have asked for knowledge that is gained taking a university level physics course.\n\nSince I am a lousy typist, I will give you some clues that should allow you to visit Google and gather the answers you are looking for.\n\nThere are twi type if color mixing.  The additive method, used by painters, where you mix yellow and blue to get green.  \n\nThe subtractive method, used in optivs and video technology, where colors are filtered out as opposed to added in.  In this method the primary color are differet.\n\nIf you want a much more thorough explanation, you may want to examine the study of "Chromatics".  At look at how rainbows are created might help as well.\n\n\nBest of luck,\nJeffrey
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Specialise in an area, such as web design or packaging. You could consider freelance work for other graphic design consultances. Don't present yourself as home based, visit clients as present that to them as more convient for them and you can gain a greater understanding of their needs. Remember the Starchi brothers started by paying actors to present themselves as a large company and won the British Airways Contract. Good Luck.
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I live in the Boston area, in various job boards, I have seen position for Powerpoint Specialists.  Some of the major educational institutions or corporations could be potential places for you to market your skills.
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do a google search - "Photoshop tutorials".  There are probably hundreds of techniques to learn. Start with the basics because these are fun to practice: effects, filters, brushes and styles, etc. You should become adept with several popular styles: metallic, fiery, watery, icy and so on.\n\nFrom there you study typography, color combinations, layouts so that your finished work will come out with a consistent theme: conservative, futuristic, horror, bold, etc. These are just some of the more "useful" themes. Be adept at several themes so that execution of a project becomes easy and several treatments for a theme can be easily compared
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For larger companies they usually start with a passive approach.  If that doesn't work, then a more agressive campaign is called for.\n\nYou will never parallel the demographics in your area, but all you need to do is give it your best shot.  Never hire a person for their color, but always for their expertise.
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Go to work for yourself.  Call a Mary Kay Cosmetics sales rep and ask her to help you get started.   Find someone that will work with you and build your people skills and your confidence.  Be ready to accept constructive criticism, but blow off people that want to throw cold water on your ideas.
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Get a copy of "What Color is Your Parachute?" By Richard N. Bolles (check your local library) It is an excellent resource.  see www.jobhuntersbible.com
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There is a "science" of color, in terms of how the colors affect the viewer.  Like bright colors, like orange, yellow, red make people take notice and take action (ie: like McDonalds, Burger King, and other fast food places use.)  I don't have any specific titles or websites, but there are books that you can use that actually have combinations of colors that inspire specific feelings in the viewer.  Designers use the, and so do people who are trying to do what you are doing.  Do a web search, or go to a bookstore, then choose colors that inspire the feeling that you want to give off.
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That would be so cool.\n\nAny specialty paint or wallpaper store should be able to help you.  Avoid chains like Sherwin-Williams, Lowe's, or Home Depot (although if you could get the paint department people at Home Depot to talk off the record, they'd be a big help).\n\nContact an interior design firm.  They might be able to hook you up with some of their distributors.\n\nBeyond that, I reckon I wish ya luck.
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just print out lots of color stuff until the old pinkish colors fade\n\nGot to agree thats an amusing gambit