copyright JLynn Peterson
This is a demo for my watercolor class. The challenge was to do a painting in gray using only red, yellow and blue pigments. I was not concerned with creating a perfect likeness of my granddaughter but concentrated on mixing grays without a color bias leaning toward any of the three colors. Working with the great hues produced by modern manufacturers students can get distracted and forget about values while painting - sometimes it is great to just get lost in COLOR but, one should find out what VALUE those colors are if they want to have a successful painting...very tricky stuff.
I don't understand what "value" means in this context...
ReplyDeleteChester, in art there is a value scale pretaining to the lightness and/or the darkness of color. It is called the gray scale and goes from white at one end to total black at the other end with shades of gray in-between. Colors also have a coresponding value of visual lightness or darkness as in the grayscale.
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