Measuring Visually -185

This discussion focuses on different ways of measuring with the eyes. Using his painting, Warm and Cool, Paul outlines a way of using your eyes to measure, or rather to get a concept of the thing fixed in your eyes, that is consistent no matter whether doing angles, shapes or color.

In response to Mist

QUESTION:When measuring relations of size I have a habit of picturing a copy of the smaller shape and I can see how many times it goes into the larger. Is this measuring in my head just as bad as using a device or is this the way I am supposed to grasp the relation of size? I have the feeling that proportion is a more abstract sense that applies not only to size but the other visual phenomenon as well. So when you grasp the relationship of angle or hue does that feel the same in your head as when you grasp the relationship of size? In my current way I picture vertical alongside two other angles I see, that feels different in my head compared to when I judge the relationship of size..

Mist