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Threads March 2020 workshop: Value Exercise Paint-along

Date: Wednesday 18th March, 6PM UK time (10am pacific, 1PM eastern)

​Topic: ​Paint-along value exercises: I’ll be supplying you with a high-res reference photo (desaturated) of a simple still life set up. We’ll then explore how to approach the values by painting a study of it together.

If you have the Munsell student book, premixing and tubing neutrals values 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 will be very useful for you. If not, try to mix up a value scale ready with ivory black and titanium white before the live stream. If you have ivroy black, titanium white, a value between them and then another between each of those, you’ll have a five-step value scale which will be sufficient.

Ideally, you’ll have a value scale mixed up to match the Munsell values 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, plus ivory black and titanium white.

If you don’t have the Munsell book, take titanium white and ivory black and mix a value visually between them. then mix one between each of those. that will give you a 5-step value scale which will be enough for this exercise.

Here is the reference photo:

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And here is a posterised version:

Note that some of hte large value areas are different here, so this version is just to make it easier to simplify the shapes of the areas of value.

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