The Value of Value Spotting
In my high school Atelier I devised a warm up
exercise to engage the students in an exercise that seems to be driving
home the value of value spotting. It is one of many critical elements in the creation of a sound image. It is part of our craft, which when executed well, attracts a viewer to your painting from across the room.
Before my students begin painting their
still lifes each session, they must take turns working on their timed ongoing value sketch. It is run like a game and it is fun. They are translating, from a printed full color masterwork, a value sketch based on the spotting of values the master artist used. It is refining their recognition of a good distribution of value, and helping them to distill out of the full color
image the value relationships present. I am hoping this exercise will
carry over to how they explain values in their own full color paintings
when they compose and look at their still lifes, "..four times for every one time,"
that they put the brush to canvas!
-Sandra Galda
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I have always loved and been busy making art. Education: B.S. in Graphic Design from SUNY at Buffalo and a Master of Liberal Arts degree in 2008 (concentrated in Art History), from Harvard University. Six years post graduate study and training at Ingbretson Studios http://studio.ingbretson.com/ learning the Boston Style of contemporary realism.
I paint on a regular basis and am busy teaching art. You can find some of the results here on this artblog. If you are interested in purchasing any available image posted in this blog, contact my email address at sandragalda11@gmail.com or use the pay pal button if included on the post. Remember to click on the phrase "older posts" at the bottom of the page to see works posted earlier, for a larger selection. All artwork sold as unframed unless otherwise stated.
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