Sketchbook Sunday: A Lesson in Values

Hi friends! I get the opportunity to view and critique student work every day and the most common issue I see is weak values. Today I am going to give you some tips to help assign values for depth, volume and clarity. I hope you find it useful in whatever medium you paint in!

I will have a 2 hour narrated tutorial of this painting in Critique Club in a couple of days but for a rundown of the concepts you can watch the time lapse below.

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Supplies:

• Berlin Watermixable Oils in colors: Cerulean, Alizarin Crimson, Yellow ochre, Lemon Yellow, Burnt umber, Ultramarine and white available in 10 color set or open stock

• Canvas panel

• Brushes: Mimik hog and Black Swan

• Reference photo

I hope you had a good weekend! My oil painting challenge is going well but I am going to need to buckle down if I am going to get my 20 done by the end of the month. I think this painting is #7 or #8. I am enjoying it! Til next time happy painting!