Figs. 22 and 23, Light and Shade

Light in Painting

Working in Value

Planning light and dark before color

Draftsmen and painters have practical ways to work in value first: simplify, start from a middle tone, or paint in grays.


  • Simplifying What You See
  • Drawing on Toned Paper
  • Grisaille

Works in this part

Image: Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931)

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