Lately, while preparing the exercises for my weekly class,
I’m getting newly inspired by re-visiting the basics.
Last week we began talking about VALUE
and how it’s the most important abstract element in painting.
“Color get’s all the credit, Value does all the work”.
Among other things, we talked about how High or Low key paintings
can evoke a speciific emotion or expression.
The Blue Room
16 x 14 acrylic
I did this over a previous painting of same subject,
pushing myself to keep all the values higher than middle,
except the rug.
(I left the rug darker to ground the painting)
Putting it into B&W tells it all;
I probably could have made it even lighter!
This is what I love about teaching;
“I teach what I want to learn” !