ART 225 - Black and White Value Scale (1/2)

[@ΔεαΚ]

Love this video, love your teaching methods, rarely have I seen good teachers on here. Thanks man, I subbed!

[@stellawolfstudio]

what a great demo, thank you so much!

[@careerbooster6922]

Thank you so much for this video. I have bought a course for Begginers in Art Academy London with an artist Natasha Lien who is our teacher. We had 2 lessons and jumped straight to paint still life and second lesson- the portrait of a girl in black and white. I am shocked as in this video the teacher explains all details while Natasha Lie just mixed bown blue and white to create black , and then created 2 Greys and pushed us , complicate puzzled to paint 😅 When I asked her on the second lesson why we , beginners , copying on the second lesson a photo of a girl without even understanding how to make the right Grey colors and no brush techniques, she said "now noone teach with basic". Thank you very much for this tutorial as now I understood that I want the full refund of my money as she is not interested in teaching Begginers. Maybe she is a great artist , but definitely not a teacher for Begginers.

[@rhileytaylor5092]

Love this video keep making them :)

[@emekaduru4951]

Nice Creation❤❤❤😊

[@stellawolfstudio]

I saw below in one of your comments that you might do another video soon, and what would we like to learn? I'd like to vote for help with identifying color temperature, and how to put paint on the canvas at the beginning in order to organize the values and temperatures of a composition. :) If you ever have time for any of that, I'll keep an eye out for new videos! Thanks again!

[@charlesreidy2765]

Do I need oil paint for this, or does acrylic work?

[@jeffmerrill2456]

Of course you can use whatever medium you want. You could do this with any dry or wet media. Having said that I would recommend using oil over acrylic. Acrylic is tricky because it dries a different value and doesn’t stay wet as long as oil. Good luck!

[@charlesreidy2765]

@@jeffmerrill2456 Thanks so much, Jeff. I'm having issues with oils, so I'm trying to do acrylic so I don't have to give up painting. I'm trying Golden Open Acrylic now. Much better than stamdard acrylic, but still not as good as oil. Thanks for your great videos.

[@jeffmerrill2456]

Sorry to hear. I think acrylic will be good. Golden=Gold standard in acrylic paint. The whole point of this exercise is to help you learn how to “see by comparison.” I struggled for years doing Plein air painting because I couldn’t see values. It was really hard to know how light or dark something was, standing outdoors. Now it’s like second nature. When I look at something I can tell immediately what color, value, and temperature it is, not because it’s inherently obvious, but because I am comparing it to what it’s next to. When I started teaching 15 years ago, I quickly learned how important this skill is. So, I have all my painting students do this exercise. They hate it-they think it’s too elementary-and as a result its importance is lost on most of them. However, I’m certain with time they’ll come to appreciate it. I’ll try posting some new videos soon, what would you like to learn? -Jeff

[@bladerun1235]

Thank you

[@poojajain6536]

Jeff hi! are you still doing videos?

[@jeffmerrill2456]

Hey Pooja! Soo good to hear from you. I can. I’m busy with other painting projects, so I haven’t made any new ones recently. I have ideas for lots of them but just haven’t taken time to create them.