During color matching, assistants mix paints by hand to match very specific areas on a reference photo, creating small labeled paint samples that map to corresponding areas on the reference image—a practice common among artists but executed at unprecedented levels of detail in Koons' studio.
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“the assistant will mix paints to match a very small and specific area on the hand for example and then they'll make a larger sample of that paint mix label it appropriately and then map it onto the reference photo...mixing paints to match a printed digital reference image is very common practice among artists...but certainly not at this level of detail”
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