![]() He then steps up to a simple grid of black and white on a light brown toned ground, and proceeds to paint a fully realized painting using the same method with only a few touches of a bright red.Īnother painting works in black and white with a few touches of brown and blue, but over a brighter underpainting. He shows the effectiveness of these basic techniques in a painting of a storefront entirely in grays. ![]() Gurney starts there, with easily grasped exercises like comparing transparent and opaque methods of making value steps in the form of simple charts. prospective buyer) with promises of color mastery, but undeservedly breeze past these important stages, the most fundamental of which, of course, is black and white, or value. Many artists’ instructional videos on color want to start out running and dazzle the student (i.e. Gurney covers a fair bit of information in this video, starting from the ground up and breaking the complexities of painting in color into more easily digestible stages that logically build on one another. Whether it is to consist of two parts or more, I don’t know. ![]() Anyone who has read my previous reviews of books and videos by James Gurney will not be surprised that I have high praise for his latest instructional video.Ĭolor in Practice, Part 1, Black, White, and Complements is - quite obviously by its title - part of a multi-part tutorial.
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