Puppy, Value Studies

If you missed it last week, here’s a funny video of our puppy Sammie and her amazing eyelashes. Click here and be sure to turn on the sound in the lower right.

One principle of art is “value,” which means the arrangement of lights and darks. “Value does the work and color gets the credit,” is a well-known artistic saying. It is recommended (though seldom practiced by me) to do value studies before starting to paint in color. These two value studies are my jar of brushes.