Comments on: Painting Research: Value Studies Design 32, Still Life with Toy Pony http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019 Peggy's Blog featuring daily drawings and new paintings Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Peggy http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019&cpage=1#comment-764 Peggy Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:43:57 +0000 http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019#comment-764 Hi Mary, It's funny how differently we can use computers. What you did for work can be so drastically different from other applications. The value studies are helping me see composition tremendously. I keep coming back to them. I may deviate when it comes time to paint, but it really helps! Thank you for the encouragement about MsKitty and her story. Maybe I need to start writing entries more consistently! You're a great friend, Mary! Hi Mary, It’s funny how differently we can use computers. What you did for work can be so drastically different from other applications.

The value studies are helping me see composition tremendously. I keep coming back to them. I may deviate when it comes time to paint, but it really helps!

Thank you for the encouragement about MsKitty and her story. Maybe I need to start writing entries more consistently!

You’re a great friend, Mary!

]]> By: Peggy http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019&cpage=1#comment-763 Peggy Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:41:04 +0000 http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019#comment-763 Hi Lilas, Thank you. One of the questions that I think about is "how do the Masters do it"...all I know is how I do it! Hi Lilas, Thank you. One of the questions that I think about is “how do the Masters do it”…all I know is how I do it!

]]> By: Mary Paquet http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019&cpage=1#comment-762 Mary Paquet Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:28:00 +0000 http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019#comment-762 Peggy, thanks so much for sharing your process. I really need to do a lot more planning than I do, especially doing the value patterns. I am going to try your method -- if I can't readily figure out my Photoshop, I will do it by hand. I made my living in computers -- you would think I would be better at this. I just read about Coastal Kitty -- if you wanted to have a dual career as a wildly successful writer, you could do it! I love these pieces and you inspire me to want to create stories around my art(and that's the English Major coming out in me). Peggy, thanks so much for sharing your process. I really need to do a lot more planning than I do, especially doing the value patterns. I am going to try your method — if I can’t readily figure out my Photoshop, I will do it by hand. I made my living in computers — you would think I would be better at this.

I just read about Coastal Kitty — if you wanted to have a dual career as a wildly successful writer, you could do it! I love these pieces and you inspire me to want to create stories around my art(and that’s the English Major coming out in me).

]]> By: lilas http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019&cpage=1#comment-761 lilas Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:34:30 +0000 http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019#comment-761 i like to read how you prodeed with work, thanks i like to read how you prodeed with work, thanks

]]> By: Peggy http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019&cpage=1#comment-760 Peggy Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:28:24 +0000 http://peggy.stermer-cox.com/?p=2019#comment-760 Hi Renu, I hope I'm not misunderstanding. Value patterns are how we arrange our light and dark shapes in a drawing, painting or design. I like to play with the patterns to see how they effect meaning and the power of the design. Does this make sense? In lots of the watercolor design books that I read, the Masters recommend studying the dark and light pattern to develop a plan. Then, when we paint, we have an idea where we are going. As you may well know, making corrections with watercolor can be a challenge! Thank you for stopping by! Hi Renu, I hope I’m not misunderstanding. Value patterns are how we arrange our light and dark shapes in a drawing, painting or design. I like to play with the patterns to see how they effect meaning and the power of the design. Does this make sense? In lots of the watercolor design books that I read, the Masters recommend studying the dark and light pattern to develop a plan. Then, when we paint, we have an idea where we are going. As you may well know, making corrections with watercolor can be a challenge!
Thank you for stopping by!

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