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Value is the number ONE thing I end up helping my students with. If you want your painting to look 3-D, you've got to get the values right.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
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Value is the number ONE thing I end up helping my students with. If you want your painting to look 3-D, you've got to get the values right.
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I appreciate it! important concept :)
That is exactly what I teach but you said it much more concisely! If you don’t mind, I am going to steal your quote “Tone does all the work but color gets all the credit” Brilliant!!
Please do, Kathy!! I stole it myself. : )
I even like the wrong value painting but I do get it!
What I have struggled with, is not value from a monotone point of view...I can nail that....it's value in colour. I get so thrown off by chroma. A long time ago, when I was a faux finisher, back in the days when a paint store fan deck had the LRV (light reflective value) assigned to every colour,; I cut up the whole deck (about 2000 colours) and placed them all in their respective order. I was shocked at how still, a vibrant yellow, can seem so much lighter than it's true "value".
Tomorrow I start a new idea, that I hope will help me with my 6 year long struggle. I am painting my palette (mixing) mid grey. I have recently become aware of this idea, and I hope it will help me nail value when dealing with chroma. Like all good Germans, I like efficiency, and doing a value study first, not only dulls my painting, but takes away from the spontaneity.
Thanks Carol for your continued posts!
The bad value painting, though incorrect, still has a nice variety of values. It is also a good composition, which all makes it a lovely abstract!
Please explain 'value' . Thanks.
Caroline, value is the lightness or darkness of a color. I have a whole ArtByte (online tutorial) about value if you're interested, here: http://www.dailypaintworks.com/ArtTutorials/ArtBytePage?inArtByteId=31
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