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Value & Color Value
Understand how to translate value into color in your paintings
- Use Alignment & Measurement To Create An Accurate Scene
- Refine A Drawing Before Painting
- Using The Essential Character Of Watercolor For Subtle Light Effects
About This Lesson
This is an in-depth lesson that covers one of the most important lessons in composition and one of the most challenging skills in painting.
The composition lesson is all about creating an abstract value composition by ‘massing’ value areas together to strengthen the structure of the painting.
The painting lesson shows how to successfully convert value to color in a painting. This is one of the hardest skills to develop because it requires developing the ability to see the Value and Chroma of a particular Hue – all at the same time. It is not a motor coordination skill – which is easier to develop. Instead, it requires broadening and deeping ones understanding of different aspects of color and deepening the ability to perceive them.
What you’ll need – Value Composition & Study
- Brushes – Large, Medium and Small Rounds
- Colors – Ivory Black, Payne’s Gray or a mix of Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna
- Watercolor paper – preferably Arches 140lb Cold Press cut to about 7″ x 11″ or so
What you’ll need – Color Value Study
- Brushes – Large Round, Medium Round, Small Round, and Rigger .
- Colors – Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Thalo Blue
- Watercolor paper – preferably Arches 140lb Cold Press cut to about 7″ x 11″ or so
DOWNLOADS : PROJECT SHEET WITH MULTIPLE REFERENCE IMAGES, VALUE STUDY INFO SHEET, COLOR STUDY INFO SHEET