Friday, November 09, 2018

old dpw challenge

Addendum: Sorry, I got my sources mixed up! I saw this exercise, using a DPW photo, from Jo's downloadable Visual Guide to Painting (which is on sale this weekend); ten lessons with links to her videos on YouTube.
You can see Jo's work and lessons on YouTube and on her website.
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I came across this old Daily Paintworks challenge on Jo MacKenzie's website. I have long admired the clarity of the values in her paintings, so I decided to give this challenge, which she credits with helping her see values more strongly, a try.
The challenge was to change the color and paint the value. I didn't change the colors (much) because I couldn't decide which colors to use! But I think I will do it again, the way it was meant to be done!

Melo, interrupting my photo-taking. 

6 comments:

RH Carpenter said...

OMG, I LOVE this!!!

laura said...

Thank you, Rhonda. I found ot to be a very good exercose in that it made me analyze what I was looking at and doing

Joyfulartist said...

Great exercise! I think I'll try it! Your cat is a stitch!

laura said...

It is! Look forward to seeing your results.

Barbra Joan said...

One of these days maybe I'll break the color barrier. I do admire the way you use it.

Barbara Muir said...

I love the cat at the bottom questioning our human obsession with perfection.
These are wonderful!

XOXOXOXOXO Barbara