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The Take a Break From Color Challenge
posted by Laurel Daniel on Saturday Feb 21, 2015
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Values are often hard to hang onto in a painting, especially with the lure of delicious, but distracting, color options. Your challenge this week is to choose a well-lit subject and paint it from life using ONLY a range of grays. The goal is to observe, establish, and maintain the values till the end of the painting process. Here are a few tips: 1) Pre-mix a range of 5 grays in a strand with white on one end and black on the other. Take the time to get the value progression well established. 2) Squint to observe the shadow and light families. 3) Start with dark family, and work to light. 4) Use a fully loaded brush and don't be miserly with the paint. 5) Save pure white for spectral highlights and pure black for darkest lowlights and calligraphy. 6) Have fun.

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The Daily Paintworks Challenge

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All entries must comply with the letter and the spirit of the challenge and must have been painted after the challenge's posting date.

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