Art Topics

Here’s a question for you – Is your biggest struggle trying to make everything perfect? Maybe you hesitate to use that nice sheet of watercolor paper because you’re afraid of messing it up? Or you buy sketchbooks but never draw in them because you…

In real life, light reveals the form of an object.  Without light, we cannot see forms. Light enables us to perceive the world around us as shapes that differ in brightness. Artists express lightness or darkness as “values” (or tones). Stronger values are dark. Lighter values…

The concept of value in art is better understood with a few visual examples.  After all, the definition in words can be tricky to understand.  Value (also known as tonal value or tones) is: “the relative lightness or darkness of a color”. Ok… Great! …

You’ve probably heard artists talking about “tone” when describing art. When I first started watercolor painting I was a bit confused by all the vocabulary. One of my favorite artists Stan Miller talks a lot about value and tone and describes this as one…