This video reinforces what a teacher once told us constantly: values does the work, color gets the credit”. Thank you!

I don't get to paint as much as I like to due to being in school and finishing up my degree. However, I love watching your videos because I get motivated to paint and its a refreshing break from studying. My issue is feeling free with my brush. I love how you are not afraid, you add color and if it spreads you work with it. Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us and giving us tips!

I learn so much from your value studies, Angela, especially this one, as I'm tackling my pesky mountains (again). I also get the added bonus of listening to the "tick-tock" white noise of your background wall clock!

Hi Angela, I am awaiting my riggor before I start and am so excited to begin. You make it seem possible for me to actually be a watercolourist!

What. Wonderful reminder of something you have stressed to us. It’s not time wasted it’s a step in successful painting.

Angela, thank you! That you speak whilst painting is of great value as well because the mind needs to be able to put words to the study and the techniques being learned/practiced. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I love this lesson. You always add just the right amount of information to round out what I need to learn. It is so easy to become discouraged ...but when I tune back into you there is an uplifting comment, something that gets me back on track. My enthusiasm is recharged and I discover that I am not alone with trials and errors and climbing those mountains to achieving a successful result. Thank you , Angela.

I loved your Friday night classes, where you were there to comment and answer questions on what you had already recorded. Are you going to be doing more of those? Thanks for all of the great classes!

I really have resisted value studies, but I hear you, and will give it more attention than I have been. Wanting to integrate this skill. Thank you for your encouragement in this process.!

Thank you for this demo, and, the addition of colour adds another dimension that is appealing and interesting. I am learning to remember to do value studies from my photos, since taking W/C Mastery and realizing how helpful and important it is for the painting process. My thought for pictures I 'see' (not photos), that I need to take the time to do some sketches for composition, and then build on that with value studies, perhaps even more than once, before trying to paint a final attempt.

I would love to see you tackle a grisaille technique. Thank you for the tonal study.

I often watch your videos but sadly I don’t comment, sorry! They are always helpful, professional and easy to follow. Thank you for this one. I need to work on adding values to my paintings, and you have given me the encouragement I need to take this added step. Also, thank you for the brush recommendation, I’ve ordered the rigger from Escoda!

I love this painting my favorite. learned so much painting values.

Thank you Angela for the value study. I find doing a value study helps with the placement of all the elements in a picture before painting in color. I look forward to these Friday Night Club videos. They help me in my journey and process.

I got the Versatil rigger #10 and I love it so much. It gives some randomness when held back on the handle but does precise strokes and blending perfectly with a shorter grip. It hold a ton of paint. I’m really happy with it. We all love the colors but value is more important than color. I need to do these one color studies in plain air.

When you’re good, you’re good🤗. Thank you so much for this study!

You make it look so easy .such wonderful.thank for sharing watching the end

Missed you over the holidays! Hope they were wonderful at your home! Thanks for doing a value study, I’ve been looking at my slope and oaks again, ready to try AGAIN!

I love the color added to pump up the value study. Intriguing!

Very nice! Thank you for this tutorial. One of my ‘resolutions ‘ this year is to try to improve on speed (without sacrificing what I view as my best work). I think grabbing a few postcards and trying this will be a perfect exercise.

Girl, you ROCK!

I love, love that you did this video! I do this often with watercolor to improve all my paintings. Practice my values to make my acrylics/drawing/colored pencil, everything improve. Normally I just do this by myself but it's really nice to have a video of someone you like and respect doing it with you. Thank you Angela, I will be looking at your website and want to take your mastery class in 2019. Your an Excellent instructor and when I got your 2019 business/ updates I was super happy for your successes girl and wanted to tell you because I know how hard it is to be an entrepreneur xoxo Cheers girl

This was indeed a very fun and informative video regarding value studies in watercolour painting... just LOVED it! Thank you so much, Angela! The addition of that colour was great! Very impressive work... well done!

Dear Angela, Happy New Year! I hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday season. So glad to see you back. Contrast has been so difficult for me to understand. I know it is important for success, and I will have to work on it much more. Your video is very helpful and thorough. I love your study and I think it's beautiful. I love the dramatic effect of using just two colors: one intense and the other offering a hint of color and interest....It tells a story as you say. . Best wishes for a happy, healthy and colorful year of blessings! Your NC friend, Sherry Lee

I am ready!! Finally, ready to pay attention to Value studies. I was in Your first Master Course. I was not ready to embrace the VALUE, in value studies...After doing holiday cards for well over a month, it feels as if I can not paint at all.....I have been pondering my situation. I realized, I (almost) have to start at the beginning... rather than being frustrated/discouraged , It takes the pressure off of me. Once again Angela, You provide words of wisdom, encouragement, and/ or a watercolor demonstration/lesson, JUST when I need it!!! Thanks!! PS...How do I transfer color into what I learn with value studies....after 3 years of watercolors, I am realizing I do not know how to do value with colors...YIKES!!

I love this lesson! A terrific reminder about the importance of value studies. Very fun!!!

I do several thumbnail sketches to get my placement of items (Especially if I am using 2 or 3 photos to make my composition), to decide on the colors I want to use ( I am a firm believer in using a limited palette--a color wheel is helpful here too) and to get my values correct. I find that if the values are off the whole picture can be off and it can be hard to figure out where I went wrong. I know that some people pooh-pooh the idea of value studies , find them boring and will skip this step. By working on my values, my painting has improved so much. Thank you for sharing your talent and knowledge with us, Angela. Have a very Happy New Year!

Thank you for this terrific video. My local teacher stresses value studies, also. Off to do one of my own right now. Thank you!

Wonderful painting. Even your intent was only a value sketch, I think it turned out as a great semi abstract painting. Thank you for creating this for us.

Thank you so much for another great, thoughtprovoking demo! You are so inspiring - thanks for sharing.

Unbelievably amazing. Thank you.

Love the splash of color ❤️❤️❤️

Wondeful, learned a new way of working. so simple but nice

Excellent video, really interesting; beautiful and powerful watercolor. Thanks a lot Angela!

What a great tutorial. And I love the two color effect!

Another thought provoking Video, just did value study, pleased, but won’t be catching you any time soon. Haha. Thanks once more for your time

Thank you so much, this is fantastic - extremely useful 😊.

It's always good to remind us to do these value studies, as they help us add depth and shadows to our paintings, transforming them from flat entities into dimensional and realistic paintings. Everyone will soon learn to see values in everything they look at. However, this can be quite annoying because, at times you just want to relax and visit with a friend and you find yourself studying how a shadow falls across their cheekbone, down onto their neck and then onto their clothing. They may become paranoid and ask, "Why are you staring at me, do I have something on my face?" So you try to explain that you are simply noticing values and then they tell you, "You are so weird". 😊 However, when your brain automatically sees these values everywhere, you will create better paintings.

Very beautiful and inspiring, Angela!

I am in love with this painting and technique ✨🙏🏼✨

I'm intrigued by the Grisaille technique and would like to try it.

Very helpful, as always. I’m that beginner who just doesn’t know where to start on the paper! I have all the paints, brushes and papers but am hesitant to put paint to paper. Your email talks are encouraging and eventually I will decide what to paint. Paula

Wow that looks so good. I am going to try this.

Angela. Happy New Year. You certainly know how to start the year out right. This is an exceptional video. I’ll need to watch it several times in order to really get the information. A bit over my head right now, but the year is young. Thank you

Excellent lesson. Thank you!

Beautiful value study!

U r a v good teacher-urging beginners to study theoretical elements-foundations. Thnx.

Excellent, as always!!!!

I wish you would have talked a bit about what you saw as the light, medium, and dark values in the photo, and how to translate that into the mixture/application of paint. To me, this was a painting demonstration of a reference photo using one color with a highlight color added. Not that it was bad, it just didn't teach me much about values. But perhaps I'm not experienced enough.

Thanks Angela, Happy New Year.

Great demonstration, good value study, will have to give it a go for my channel. Thanks for sharing, it gives a nice mood to the scene!!

Excellant encouragement to utilize those value studies Angela...I had a teacher here who stressed the importance of that discipline as well, although I have failed to implement it!! 😩 I'm wondering if your indigo pigment is fresh from the tube?

Thank you Angela great information

Thank you for a valuable lesson

Really gorgeous

A very useful video, thank you for for the reminder Angela! My problem is to know how to adjust a color to a value scale. In other words how are you sure that the color you have chosen has the same value as the grey in your sketch?

This is really helpful! Thank you so much!

Wow, I haven’t understand before but now I have a better clue, I Hope I get sometime tomorrow to try this. I wanna do some series of valuestadying. I think that Will be my next move. I always use my emotions when I’m paint, when I scrap also. I have hard not to, if I don’t feel anything I don’t care enough at the moment. Mabye later. So trying to understand and make it a guide for my paintings that are my goal now.

Gee, your value study is beautiful.

Great Angela l have to try this one. l can see the benefits after the Mastery course

Beautiful

loved your video!!

Really helpful, thanks! 🎨🌸

Thank you for reminding me to do value studies. They are valuable too and I keep forgetting. I will try to do better for 2019

Thanks Angela, this is a great lesson. With grisaille the artist paints over the values with color. Can you do that with this painting that is using stronger darks?

Thank you. Very generous. Happy 2019!

Great video - !

I have a question...I typically paint mostly in an abstract style straight from my head. I know that your paintings can be very abstract in style, but still come from some part of the reference photo. How do you do a value study when doing something without a reference photo? Does this make sense?

What works for me ,is using a black and white image,tfs your process.

The Indigo color is usually Indanthrone Blue mixed with Lamp Black in case someone doesn’t have it. I also like to do Notan. It’s taken me about 2 years of observation, study and a bit of practice to see in Notan and render one but, wow, is it helpful for painting light.

This is a painting Angela in its own right.

Happy new year! Nice video! In fact i did a pencil sketch before my last painting. I didn't help a few things like the water, but everything was ok except i had a problem with the arches 140lb cold press paper. When i applied the water i got a bunch of dark spots in one section. Never had that happen. Have u seen it ever? It was bright white.

My name is Amgela too

Is that the Athabasca River near Jasper?

Fehr is a swiss name... you come from there?