Hi Morgan, This is my value scale assignment. In skin tone mixing lecture, you said that shadows won't be affected by the temperature of light. Going by that logic, I kept the values of my shadows unchanged and only darkened my light values for subdued lighting. Everyone seem to lighten their shadow values for subdued lighting. But if the lighting is dull, it should have even darker shadows. In case of bright light, the bounce light will also be brighter which should lighten the shadows. This is just my logic and I might be totally wrong. Your words will be final. Thanks.

light and shadow family

This was my first time mixing oil paints or doing any type of painting with oils. Took me a while before I was using the palette knife correctly. I hope this is somewhat accurate.

Assignment complete. I decided not to go too dark on the diminished light scale. Just enough to see a difference. I hope this is sufficient.🤔

Challenging project. I realised that I moved up the shadow values by one step and moved down the light ones by one step as well.

More challenging than I thought!

Flesh values & Cloudy day values. I learned a valuable lesson on this exercise; don’t try to mix values on grey pallet and then paint on white surface. I made it 10 times harder than it should be, and still not sure it’s as accurate as it could be.

Just saw this on my bathroom wall. Fun example of value changes.

This is the greatest explanation I have heard in seven years of trying to understand values, all I have ever heard is "if you get your values right you have got it made...Get your values right, have three to five values and get them right" I don't think YouTubers want you to know this info so you will keep coming back to their channel!!! Thank you Morgan!!!

I thought my halftone was too light at first, then I remembered the rule: "Always make your halftones LIGHTER than they appear". I think this is close to being correct ( other than I can't spell Reflective Light ) Are my light and shadow families good?

Not sure if I pushed the contrasts too close on the cloudy one (to the right) but hopefully this is good enough.

I did Cloudy Day first as it was cloudy when I painted (although I was indoor.) Then I tried to differentiate Sunny Day from it. Not sure if it worked.

Value Scale practice

This looks simpler than it is. First of all I had a hard time identifying my local skin color. The left side is my sunny day; felt good about my cloudy day until they dried and I took the picture as they seem quite close. Value in color is definitely my weak area.

I have no idea if that is ok or not. Is there a way to position my glass palette so I don't have reflection in it, I have a hard time seeing the values on my palette because it reflects everything. I tried slanting it but that didn't help much.

I understand the family separation of a single local value but how do you determine the degree of family separation for two differing local values so they appear to be in the same light?

Thanks for the side bars on value. They were very helpful. I may not know how to implement them correctly, but I do understand how it’s supposed to work.

I made the left one the gray day and the right one the sunshiny day. I can see that when I do the squinty eye that the one on the right doesn’t have much distinction between the two families.

The dark accent is also called the “occlusion shadow” . Halftones are my biggest challenges. Your explanation of halftones being part of the light family was a revelation to me when I heard you say it in your workshop and videos. It echoes in my brain. 😀

Total beginner here. Had to YouTube how to clean brush beginner. Should my light family half tone be lighter? And my reflective light darker?