Watercolour value study

Learn how making thumbnail sketches and using them as value studies helps you create winning painting compositions. How to sketch the value and tone relationships and how to create an interesting composition by testing out value and tone of your masses. Tips to plan a good painting.

Try these watercolor techniques for loosening up: Use a value study to remove the guesswork—and white outlines—from your watercolor painting process.

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3 Watercolor value exercises to help you improve the quality of your paintings. One of the biggest factors that differentiates a novice and an experienced watercolor artist is the translation of values in their work. An experienced watercolor artist knows how to portray values accurately. In this article you'll find 3 value exercises to help you improve.

Color Exercise Exercise #2 – Color Value Application Knowing the intrinsic value of color pigments is crucial to the success and enjoyment of painting. This is true for the abstract artist a…

These value studies allow me to explore compositions and values.

An excerpt from Ron Hazell's "The Artist's Guide to Painting Water in Watercolor," on creating a value study.

Last week, I started a blog post series about 5 different types of watercolor charts beginning with the basic watercolor chart . Like I mentioned, not all of these will technically be charts - today we're reviewing a type of scale . But whether they are charts or scales, I like to think of them a

​Don’t you think it’s curious? The way certain watercolors provoke emotion, but others fall short of your expectations. Color plays a huge role in successful painting, which is why color theory in watercolor art is a valuable thing to grasp. Understanding colors and how they interact with each other can go a long way to

Payne's grey is one of numerous colors , like Van Dyck or Hooker's green, to be named after a painter who was, usually, a little bit monomaniac on a tint. Van Dyck had a palette rich in browns, Hooker was a botanical artist who needed a special pigment for leaves, and Payne was a watercolor artist f