If any of you follow me on Instagram or Facebook  you would have seen what has been waking me up really early and keeping me looking in my backyard in the evening... It's a family of foxes that have decided to use my shed as a home.  3 then 5, now I counted 7 pups/kits and a mom moved in and it is an amazing time watching these little foxes live on my property! Yes, I will be painting them in the future but I have to get the perfect shot so we can all paint it together for a paint-a-long.

 

The TWSA exhibition in Kenosha will open May 1st. I will be heading to see the exhibit next Tuesday on the 3rd and will be there when it opens at 10am. If you are in the area that day I invite you to see the show with me.

 

Join my Facebook Group. and show everyone in the group your paint-a-long.
 

Last week we started a 4-week plan on learning how to see the values and slowly building in the colors to match those values. This week you should pick 2 colors and I recommend a cool and warm color and again you can also include a black and a white into the 2 colors to lighten and darken the 2 colors that you pick.

 

This technique of only using 2 colors simplifies the color palette and makes you use a warm on either the back or front and use the cool for the opposite of the warm placement.

Sometimes you can use the colors to enhance the value pattern when the value pattern isn't that strong a pattern as illustrated in the photo of the tulips below. In the Black and white photo, the pattern isn't distinctly defined but if you use the 2 complementary colors against each other the pattern is well defined. 

 

Simplifying the value pattern and the color palette makes things easier and helps you simplify in the long run.