Colorblindness never really hindered me throughout my life until I decided to study studio painting in college. I don't think I took into account that I would actually have to really understand color to receive an acceptable grade for painting something to its exact representation. My choices of color were always based on 1. the colors I could see and 2. the colors that I felt were most appropriate. My compositions would come out in bright neon colors that were considered too blinding to be realistic, when in all actuality through my eyes were quite normal. In the end I was told that I had a decent form, but that my color choices were obnoxious and loud, and that I my art couldn’t be commercially successful based on the judgment that my colors were 'eye searing'. - TL