I ordered this value and color system from Peggi Kroll Roberts. I've only had a chance to play with it a short time, but I love it! My goal this summer is to study basics and I want to begin with values. Peggi has a wonderful DVD that comes with this system and I also have several of her other DVDs. Carol Marine is another artist that stresses values. She has an ArtByte tutorial on values if you are interested. Both of these artists are remarkable teachers as well as accomplished artists with amazing work under their belts.
This is my first attempt at using these wonderful blocks and sphere. They are white, gray and black. I painted these quickly and I am not happy with my drawing, but just wanted to set them up and play with the short time I had. I am really looking forward to pulling out more blocks and colors and working with different compositions, light, edges, etc. The possibilities are endless and I am very excited about it!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK-END!!!
12x6 Oil on Panel
The lighting on this mug shot was so interesting as it was side lighted. The lighting is usually straight on so when I saw this photo I knew I must paint it. I thought a warm green background would be a good compliment to his beautiful skin tones. Although I thought this would be easy to paint with the light being concentrated on only one side of his face, it was not. However, once I divided my palette into lights and darks as suggested by Peggi Kroll Roberts in her DVD and Nancy Colella in her blog, my colors and strokes began to fall into place. I love it when that happens! Learning from accomplished artists is always a delight! Thank you to all the artists out there that share their knowledge!!!
