Your Key to Painting Tonal Values Workshop

Schedule

Day 1: Valuable Value Studies

3 hours with a 15 minute break in the middle. 

Presentation and demo about how to accurately see value in your source material and how to group values together to make a stronger painting – starting with the value study.

Several exercises making strong value studies, and we’ll talk about how to decide what to put in and what to leave out.

Then you are encouraged to use source material you want to paint from to make a couple value studies, which will help you to create stronger paintings!

At the end there may be time to paint together, and work on personal projects.

 

Day 2: Value Choices (light paintings, dark paintings, and high contrast paintings)

3 hours with a 15 minute break in the middle. 

Presentation about how different value choices can be made with the same source material!

Demo showing value studies using high key (light paintings), low key (dark paintings, and high contrast choices.

Time to paint together, and work on personal projects. (Painting demo if requested.)

 

Day 3: More Value Choices (choosing interesting value relationships)

3 hours with a 15 minute break in the middle.

Presentation and demo about being thoughtful about the value relationships.

Time to paint together, and work on personal projects. (Painting demo if requested.)

 

Supplies:

• sketchbook
• pencil & eraser
• markers (ideally a black marker and a grey marker)
  • if you just have one marker, like a black sharpie or other broad-tipped dark pen, that will work.
• black and white paint
• wide paint brush (1/2 to 1″ flat taklon brush recommended)
• a cheap surface, approximately 8×10 – 11×14″, for making several 5″ wide painted value studies on the same surface (depending on your type of paint, this could be your journal, other paper, canvas paper, loose canvas, etc.)
• source material you would like to paint from