Now, technically, she doesn't "need" to either. It is a choice on her part to go on only using those three…theoretically. But when it comes to creative endeavors, you never know. Theoretically, I have the choice to write stories for some other fandom, or original fiction, but something is missing when it's not the characters and storyverse I love so well. So, I choose to stay where the magic is, and I hesitate to say that it's unwise for this woman not to move beyond those three colors. If it's what works for her, that's that. She should know.
That one case aside though, I like the principle. There is a lighting class at Carnegie Mellon where you design with 3 instruments. It's the same principle. Of necessity, you WILL learn how to get all you can from those 3 lamps. I would never recommend making a career of it, but I'd certainly recommend anyone do it more than once.
Ever see one of those mega-epics that try to be Crisis on Infinite Storylines? It's muck. Or "Thing 1 happens" - and now we have every character in the canon hearing the news and reacting before we can go on to "Thing 2". Then we have T2, and here we go again… You can't throw everything on the spice rack into one dish without saturating the palate. Picking and choosing requires two things: the expertise to know what to use and how, and the discipline to do it. Light 3 shows using only 3 colors, and you'll build up both.
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