tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post3900329768928126016..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: Composition - why tonal values and contrast are importantUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-18574525711788311972008-02-13T07:06:00.000+00:002008-02-13T07:06:00.000+00:00Thanks Maggie - It's probably going for a try-out ...Thanks Maggie - It's probably going for a try-out as a pastel next. Plus acquiring one or maybe two companions. Then I'll think about exhibitions and sales.....<BR/><BR/>Thanks to everybody else as well for your comments which are always very much appreciated. <BR/><BR/>Anon. - interesting to hear about the Ruby Beholder. I've never seen or heard of one - but it makes complete sense that other creative areas should be using the red plexiglass trick too. Nice to meet another Whistler fan too.<BR/><BR/>Robyn - I can't wait to see your new still life box!<BR/><BR/>Lena - yours is a very interesting post and one for my collection of posts about composition by other bloggers - to be published as a blog post soon.Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-52909607936898865682008-02-13T01:09:00.000+00:002008-02-13T01:09:00.000+00:00Katherine! I was going to just catch up on missed ...Katherine! I was going to just catch up on missed posts in silence, but I just had to tell you that that work in progress is absolutely stunning. The dapples . . . sigh. Gorgeous. I think it's possibly my absolute favorite of yours yet. Is it going to an exhibition? Or will it be for sale?Maggie Stiefvaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15842527558335640093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-41002217867806802142008-02-12T13:27:00.000+00:002008-02-12T13:27:00.000+00:00You've done a wonderful service with this series o...You've done a wonderful service with this series on composition. It is providing a very helpful consolidation of many different things I've read over the years. Thank you for bringing your talents to this subject.<BR/><BR/>I put a link to your series in my blog. I'm not sure if my address is shown to you automatically with my signature in a previous comment. <BR/><BR/>If not here it is: http://larainearmenti.blogspot.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-67698555866922199662008-02-11T03:57:00.000+00:002008-02-11T03:57:00.000+00:00Katherine, thank you for this very interesting pos...Katherine, thank you for this very interesting post. It inspired me (finally) to begin to explore a value-related issue I've been thinking about for some time with the help of PS. I've written a post about it and linked to your post <A HREF="http://manisagiddything.blogspot.com/2008/02/values-and-posterization-test.html" REL="nofollow"> here</A>.Elena Maslova-Levinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864089069797387037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-55739545834951285372008-02-08T14:09:00.000+00:002008-02-08T14:09:00.000+00:00You are right, Katherine, I'm planning reading tim...You are right, Katherine, I'm planning reading time! If fact I have to save this whole, fascinating post until I finish the M.W. Dow book. <BR/> <BR/>I found a wonderful strong cardboard carton when I was putting out the rubbish yesterday and salvaged it for a still life studio - then I couldn't remember where, months ago, I had seen instructions for constructing such a light box. And of course, here it is, in your post!Robyn Sinclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01663604160297996421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-87253647194695041592008-02-07T07:45:00.000+00:002008-02-07T07:45:00.000+00:00I found my way here from vivian's blog, paintings ...I found my way here from vivian's blog, paintings prints and stuff, and am so glad.<BR/><BR/>I work in the fiber/textile/art quilt world and the value finder you describe is similar to a tool quilters use called a Ruby Beholder (a smallish piece of red plexiglass). I have found it useful also to have a green viewfinder especially when working primarily with red tones. Using the red filter on red and other warm tones sometimes creates the impression of turning everything "white" whereas a green filter serves the same purpose of revealing value without the odd impression of washed-out color. And if I'm having trouble working out the muddle of the middle tones, I sometimes use both filters to figure out what's what. Color can be very tricky...<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much for the fabulous posts (and for featuring the Whistler painting. He's one of my favorite painters. When he was good, he was very, very good -- and his use of color was impeccable.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-33162405669062291102008-02-07T01:27:00.000+00:002008-02-07T01:27:00.000+00:00This AM I used PS to remove the color from an imag...This AM I used PS to remove the color from an image before e-mailing it to the patron. I couldn't tell if it was too dark or light except to do that!<BR/><BR/>Very useful post.Casey Klahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020906666248399435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-78986424520244806212008-02-06T16:56:00.000+00:002008-02-06T16:56:00.000+00:00this really is another excellent post!as you know ...this really is another excellent post!<BR/><BR/>as you know I love PS for all this kind of thinking through - and for images that exist in their own right.<BR/><BR/>as for organising tonally - I do this with my pastels.<BR/><BR/>I have a fantastic set of plastic drawers that click securely shut, about 18 inches high, with a carrying handle.<BR/><BR/>There are 6 drawers and each is divided into 3 sections - perfect! <BR/><BR/>I have it divided into 1 blues, 2greens, 3 reds/reddish oranges, 4browns, 5 black and white and 6yellows/paler oranges. The three sections divide them up neatly into dark/medium/light. <BR/><BR/>They are capable of holding quite a lot of pastels :)<BR/><BR/>The drawers come out so I can spread them round me when I work. Being totally right brained I'd never put them neatly back into their little grooves in the rather posh boxes you can get - but this sort of organisation is more intuitive and works for me :)<BR/><BR/>Being from B&Q diy store it only cost me £12 - put a label on saying Art ''*** (insert name of choice) and you'd be paying 5 times the price! It's very smart looking as wellvivienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16820836660470146799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-27454335219307533112008-02-06T14:05:00.000+00:002008-02-06T14:05:00.000+00:00Wonderful post again! I have been working my paint...Wonderful post again! I have been working my paintings with shape first then color. Now I'm going to work shape first, value second then color. Thanks!Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01142884023928819776noreply@blogger.com