wow, this is your oddest yet. this is so cool. It gives me an open feeling, or idk that sounds dumb, like it makes me feel like, hope. very cool, idk what it means to study the value of art, or something, i think maybe that means without color..or i kinda have no clue, but either way i really like this.
It's about studying how light and shadow interact with the world as opposed to the actual individual elements of the world I'm painting. If I just concentrate on painting the shadows on a white page, objects appear by themselves. The same as if I concentrate on painting highlights and light reflections on a dark page.
To put it another way; I didn't paint any rocks or trees in this picture, just the various shadows that light creates on them... the rocks and trees appeared by themselves.
Man, saying all of that makes me sound like a real ass-hat!
lol no its a good thing i know what value means. i had an art class in 9th grade and i think my teacher touched on that, i just forgot, so thank you for writing me a page on what it is it really is appreciated.