Working With Values -405

[@lewicron]

Thank you so much, Paul - extremely enlightening and clarifying. I do think it's interesting how these differing approaches lead to similar outcomes via different paths - planarity emerging from roundness, form emerging from colour-value units and vice versa - but with subtle yet significant differences in outcome. Email incoming re the Tarbell essay!

[@PaulIngbretson]

Did i send it yet?

[@lewicron]

@@PaulIngbretson you did!

[@chompers11]

Any books you can rec for understanding value in painting specifically? I have a strong pull towards painting landscapes but find myself doing lots of portraits instead 😂

[@PaulIngbretson]

no, Carlson, Birge Harrison, Payne, Dow... and of course Speed, Solomon, come to mind but can't say really. might look at Anson Cross' Drawing and Painting Self-taught, for starters. Look at my video about my landscape drawings?

[@KarenMeneghin]

Paul, can you talk more about your "building fund"? More details, please. Thanks

[@PaulIngbretson]

Sure, will do, Karen. Thanks for asking.

[@sketchartist1964]

Ingres more or less worked in the same way Raphael did, that is, by painting over a rather tight preliminary drawing on his canvas did he not? And is that not the kind of thing you sometimes refer to as a "colored drawing"? Just trying to understand where youre coming from. I would also like to read the essay on Tarbell. Thank you for sharing this valuable information with us, it is very much appreciated!

[@PaulIngbretson]

Yes, on the first part and if i have your email address I can forward the Tarbell article.

[@PaulIngbretson]

It may have just been put on studio.ingbretson.com

[@sketchartist1964]

@@PaulIngbretson Ok thank you Paul!

[@jeffreygale4409]

Please send me the 24 essay about Tarbell. Thank you, Jeffrey, from Strafford, Vermont.

[@PaulIngbretson]

send your email address and I will. It may be at studio.ingbretson.com by now, too. Trying to get all these items in a central location.

[@chompers11]

I think I could spend years learning how values work.

[@PaulIngbretson]

mostly, like with other elements, remember Brackman's: "It's just dis ta dis and dat ta dat." Helps to use your eyes in different ways when trying to understand values.

[@PaulIngbretson]

email me [e-mail] and consider doing a conversation with me for a video on values?