Hi Allan,
My two cents' worth of this Carder technique of assessing values is it's actually an amalgamation of various techniques from artists, and it's especially with those that our Forum members have discussed over the years. One particular tell-tale of this guy's technique is in his strategy to assess the colours at the early stages of his paintings - it reminds me of those that are professed by David Leffel, and Greg Kreutz, with a smack of Ted Seth Jacobs. So to me, it's another 'repackaged art technique'.
I also note the palette's transparent through a dark coloured carpet. So he's using the carpet colour as his 'grey card' to assess the colour values. This got me thinking - didn't i remember one of our Forum member sharing a tip, to use a grey paper underneath a glass sheet and it makes a great palette?
So to end, I would like to say that as great as this video is for many beginners, Forum members should be assured that all the things that he will say in the video - and more from our in-house experts like Michelle, Chris and William Whitaker - are already available here in our family of portrait friends, on the Portrait Artists' Forum.
