In painting, local color is the color of an object when seen under flat white light with no adjustment for form shadow or colors of light or secondary light sources.
Local color is learned in childhood to help simplify and make sense of the world.
when there are actually myriad variations in hue, chroma, within these areas.
In order to represent objects realistically, painters must look beyond the simplifications of local color.
In contemporary sculpture local color is the original color of the raw material that remains unpainted in the completed work.