color as value | Shawn Dell Joyce

Color As Value

One of my favorite challenges in my Advanced Pastel Techniques class (next session is at Dunedin Fine Art Center Winter 1, Thursday...

Color Temperature and Henry Hensche

In my class; "Classical Training for Artists" we are studying color theory and the work of "Every form change is a color change..."...

How I teach Still Life Classes...

If you ask 100 different artists how to approach a still life, you may get 100 different answers. In art, there are many paths to the...

Abstracting the Landscape

When I'm plein air painting, I have a different process than when I'm painting in the studio. In plein air, you have a short period of...

The painting process

If I were to describe my painting process here, it would be back-to front, and dark-to-light. That means I started with the big shapes of ..

Abstracting the Landscape Part 2

What we have done so far is break it down into values and shapes. At this point, we can start assigning color to those shapes.