Value painting

For me, even a simple landscape painting needs to have three basic elements. A foreground, midground and background. How those three elements are handled will

I created this post to discuss how an artist can think technically about achieving an intended value key discussed in the previous post. This method helps to simplify an overwhelming number of values into a more workable structure at early stages of a painting (a digital one in this case). The loose renderings below are quick head studies from my imagination as they might be lit for dramatic and compositional purposes. I began with this basic head drawing which indicates some of the major…

Do you ever get confused about tonal values? Here is a free poster to help you make sense of them with a value study.

Learn all about tonal values in painting and drawing and how to create a sense of light and dark in your own paintings. Tonal value scale

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Today was the first day of a 5-day Peggi Kroll-Roberts at l'Atelier aux Couleurs in Petaluma. Peggi has a wonderful unique style for painting the figure, so I've looked forward to studying with her for some time. She's also a lot of fun. Today, we started simple: gray scale paintings. These are done, much like

Value is a term we use to refer to lights and darks, which are arguably the most important of all the visual elements. Without value variations we could not even see the subject - in pitch black or blinding light or even thick gray fog, for example, we see nothing.

– Jeanne Mackenzie reporting – In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and points out why they succeed as painted images. This week, Brad Clark’s “Down the Road.” Lead Image: “Down the Road,” by Brad Clark, oil, 8 x 10 in. This painting […]

Learn how to start a painting with the first three (light, medium and dark) color values, in order to help create a realistic sense of light from the start.