Value Studies

Can't claim that I know how to paint.  Just doing this Nathan Fowkes assignment.

 

Value Studies - Master Copies

 I've had Schoolism for a long time but haven't done much.  I'm not working right now and I am starting to do some stuff.  These are Master Copies.

More small value studies

Here are a few more value studies.  Images on left are Sargeants.  Images on the right in black and white are mine.

Value Studies

Here are some more master copies in 4 values.

4 Value Studies - Master Paintings - Picture Making Clas

I haven't posted the last couple of months but I have been active. I have been taking a Picture Making Class with Glen Orbik and Laurel Blechman.  Here are some master copies in 4 values I have done. On the left is the real master painting.  On the right is my value study.  I am going to get updated on my posts over the next week or so.  I miss posting on the blog.

Value Exercises

I am doing different exercises to work on values. Here the values are changed and shuffled. The top is a photo of the place, the 2nd was painted on site, the third and fourth have the values shuffled. These are twenty minute studies or less. I did this outside at Village Green. It's an hour study.

These are two x hour studies at the Kline Academy themed pose of "Turkish Delights" by the Gallery Girls/

These are some master copies with four values.

4 value studies

These are my six four value studies. My white and black tend to get muddy. I worked outside and also from some old masters. I can see some of my errors right away now that I see the example and the painting next to each other. There are some misplaced blacks at where the forehead meets the hair line on the Michaelangelo's "Creation of the Sun and the Moon" detail. There are some missing darks behind Perugino's Jesus. and there are some missing darks between the legs of Michaelangelo's "One of the damned dragged to hell by demons." My tree by the lake with the grasses seems to be missing a central dark. My shadow pattern seems to be off in the Cherry tree in the field but I think it didn't look exactly like that when I painted because I went back to take the picture about 20 min after I painted it because I initially forgot to photograph it.

Nine Value Scales - Studies

I worked on these 9 Value Scales today. I know it's Easter but my husband is in the office writing his screenplay and the Lakers lost so I thought I'd work on my painting some. I feel very technnical a loss with painting so I'm trying to work on my basics.

The first value scale is on top. I felt like the step between white (9) and (8) went to fast so I tried to rectify it in the next one. Then next thing I saw was between 4,5 and 6 it just didn't seem to be working and I still thought there may be room for another mix between 8 and 9

This is the third one I did. I cropped it in photoshop so it looks a little slicker. 1 and 2 seem to be too close now.

Values - Studies for Painting

Played around with these exercises from the Virtual Academy about finding values.

I used these to help. I just bought these this week. I like them.

Here I posterized some photographs into 9 value scale.

Here's a comparison of a photo I took and me assigning values to it.