Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

Line Shape Form Space  Value "Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire. " John Singer Sargent    Value, or tone, refers to the use of light and dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork.  One of my favorite painters current day that uses this in many of her pieces as an underpainting before she paints her colors in, is Texas Artist Rebecca Zook . Her work is incredible.  Working in acrylic, she lays in her values before layering the colors on top.   Texas Artist Nancy Medina , sort of does this but with transparent colors creating the forms and backgrounds of what she is painting.  When I took one of her floral workshops we worked with browns and moved forward.   With this lesson being on values... I want to take Rebecca's challenge of the black and white acrylic painted first and then layering of color...so this week I have examples of two pumpkin paintings because I l