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In this lesson world-renowned draftsman and painter Steve Huston demonstrates painting in a two-value system. You will learn how about the importance of relating parts of the painting to the whole composition. Steve will also show you how to work with positive and negative background elements in your paintings, correcting mistakes organically as you go. You’ll learn to render the dark side against the light side of your objects for clear and readable paintings.
Materials
- Gamblin Artist Grade Oil Paints
- Sharpie Permanent Marker
- Newsprint
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1. Lesson Overview
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1. Expressing the Relationship Between Parts of a Whole
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2. An Impressionist Approach to Covering the Canvas
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3. Correcting the Positive Shape With a Negative Background
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4. Rendering Values to Separate the Dark Side from the Light Side
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5. Transitioning Halftones and Softening Edges of Dark Value Shadows
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6. Rendering in a Two-Value System
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7. Making Better Decisions on Bigger Ideas to Focus Your Audience
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