Artistic Secrets to Painting Tonal Values
Editorial Reviews Book Description Behind every great painting is a strong foundation of tonal values. This book reveals the secrets to achieving dramatic, professional-looking results by exploiting the power of values. You'll learn a basic, step-by-step approach to controlling tonal values right from the start. Complete with painting demonstrations and before-and-after demos, Artistic Secrets to Painting Tonal Values will help you bring sparkle and impact to your paintings. From the Inside Flap Color is probably one of the first things you notice when you look at a painting. But without at least minimal contrast showing light and dark values, even the brightest colors appear flat and boring. In fact, every element of your painting--composition, light and shade, texture ... it all starts with a strong foundation of tonal values.
This book will give you a complete, working understanding of how to use values to greatest effect, including how to:
- use values to depict form, dimensionality and spatial relationships:
- take advantage of the inherent drama of strong value contrasts:
- use thumbnail sketches and underpaintings to "map out" values and composition :
- use lights and darks as tools to draw the viewer into, and through, your picture:
- use values to suggest movement and texture:
Step-by-step demonstrations (in watercolor, oil and pastel) show value principles at work. You'll even find a chapter of "fix-it" tricks, along with revision demos that show how to enliven a lackluster image by adjusting values. Artistic Secrets to Painting Tonal Values
Artistic Secrets to Painting Tonal Values,Alex Kedzierski,North Light Books,0891349251,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Color In Art Media,Colors,Painting,Painting - General,Technique,Techniques,Techniques - General
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