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Originally Posted by Marvin Mattelson
I don't know what the point is to learning tricks.
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Thank you, Marvin,
so yours is the string system........
I also find that strings are helpful, I have tubed a string of gray values and also Indian and Venetian reds. I find it vere useful to have them ready on the palette when doing a portrait.
Can you tell me what you think when you look for value, do you compare to the neighbouring value or to a key value somewhere?
I have read that Peter Christian Skovgaard (1817-1875) , a midt 1800 danish painter, used a 12 value premixed palette for landscapes. I was in the "Golden Age" of Danish painting and all of the painters used very convincing values.
Many of the paintings were made in Italy., the place to go at that time.
I am not so sure that this Carder is cheating, because he actually compare by eye. He uses his little thing to help focus on the target. He also say that he is not using it much anymore.
I don't actually mean tricks, that's why I wrote "tricks".
Debra,
You'r right, the hard thing is to look at a painting with fresh eyes.