12-10-2012, 06:54 PM
John singer sargent on values: how to avoid false accents.
'' You must classify the values, If you begin with the middle tones and work your way up towards the darks, so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks you avoid false accents.
Of course, a sketch is different. You don't mind false accents there. But once you've made them in something you wish to carry far, in order to correct them you have to deal with both sides of them and get into alot of trouble. ''
'' You must classify the values, If you begin with the middle tones and work your way up towards the darks, so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks you avoid false accents.
Of course, a sketch is different. You don't mind false accents there. But once you've made them in something you wish to carry far, in order to correct them you have to deal with both sides of them and get into alot of trouble. ''