The Value of Value Spotting
In my high school Atelier I devised a warm up exercise to engage the students in an exercise that seems to be driving home the value of value spotting. Before they can begin painting their still lifes each session, they must take turns on their timed ongoing drawing, on which they are translating from a masterwork in full color oil, a value sketch. It is refining their recognition of the distribution of value, helping them to distill out of the full color image the value relationships present. I am hoping this exercise will carry over to how they explain values in their own full color painting when they look at their still life, "..four times for every one time," that they put the brush to canvas!
-Sandra Galda
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