Ruth here, Thankyou so much! I had read James Gurney‘s article on this topic, but seeing so many examples and a more in depth explanation is so helpful and interesting.
I am looking out of my window this morning and can find all of these in nature, such as the light faraway mountain against the light morning sky. I see them all! Even my nonartist husband thinks it’s cool!
Awesome video Rachel! Love the analysis of your own and other paintings! We useful and inspiring!!!:) And thank you for the mention of course!! Very kind :)
Duly working on binge watching here :D And as many others said all over your videos - your content is really packed with information, and definitely offers so much more than more common beginner / do as I do - only stuff.
I watched this last week and started applying it on the snowy mountain paintings I've been deep into lately. It's made a huge difference, especially where the ridge line meets the sky. My mountains are so much more glowy and don't look as pasted onto the sky. Thank you!
Yes! It works on everything! It is such a game changer for me to at least know this. I find that even if I only get at least 2 or 3 of the pairings it's a vast improvement over only having 1 pairing.
Thank you for being so generous with your insights and talent. I have learned so much from you in a short period of time. I get so excited and motivated by your tutorials, it is priceless.
Okay I just learned something that I kind of knew or heard about but did not know completely and how to appreciate & apply it to my own artwork or see it applied to others artwork. Definitely noticed in some of my paintings that I have successfully applied 2-3 of these to my artwork already without planning to do it on purpose, or at least not consciously. 😉😊😁Thanks so much for explaining this principle to me and sharing this informational video with us. Oh I forgot to answer the question: I would say some dark on dark values on the bridge of the muzzle and the brow of the left eye & ear as you are looking at the painting.
Do see Michael Soloyev's Channel. His portraits are on the same principle and are amazingggggg! Now I know why they work, Rachel. Thanks so much for this.
@@rachelparkervarner I went to the one I saw that was stunning, Rachel and copied the link for you. He has got so much there it'll take a month of Sunday's to go thru it all! Haha. ua-cam.com/video/_mfbNygZ79M/v-deo.html
Thank you for this valuable lesson. I was aware of the importance of darkest dark against lightest light but not of the other value pairings. Thanks again for sharing.
I’m an experienced artist but I have never heard of this principle. This was so helpful and had given me ideas of how to improve my own paintings! Thanks so much for explaining this in depth. I love your work so much!
Wonderful explanation of this! I watched Nina of NVfineARTstudio right before this about connecting one's elements via values and textures, which had similar advice. Now, I have even MORE to "worry" about when painting. 😀 Even though your interest is animals (which you do magnificently) your portraits are stunning, and I think many would love to see a tutorial on those. The Japanese girl was jaw dropping. I have been there, and it is a wonderful representation. The way you handled the different aspects and drew our attention - wow! My only small nit (yeah, I know - everybody's a critic) is, for my preference, the phone kind of disrupts the cultural mood. It would be good to include for a photo, to show the dichotomy of new vs. traditional. It seems to draw my attention in the painting, as it was so different than the other elements in its modernity. Thanks you for sharing your talents with us!
I thought the Japanese girl was stunning. Very representative of what I saw when I was there. If I had her talent and skill level I would have painted a girl very similar. It takes me back to images of Japan.
@@verwilliams1 It certainly is stunning! Rachel is enormously gifted, and I admire her greatly. Even the paintings of her own that she does not like are excellent and far better than I could hope to produce. My preference was just without the phone.
I need to watch that video by @NVfineARTstudio - it sounds interesting : ) I liked the phone because it made this painting different than what you would expect. I do want to do more people tutorials, I just wish there was more time in the day!
The background can be done first or last. The trick is to find a reference that just gives you these lost and found edges are, where the light on light and dark on dark edges are, then you won't have to figure that part out!
Ruth here, Thankyou so much! I had read James Gurney‘s article on this topic, but seeing so many examples and a more in depth explanation is so helpful and interesting.
I'm glad it was useful Harald!
OMG 😮 That ballerina painting though!
Thank you Christina!
Yes!!
Gurney is great with light and at explaining how to paint colour 😀 he is very helpful
I agree!
I am looking out of my window this morning and can find all of these in nature, such as the light faraway mountain against the light morning sky. I see them all! Even my nonartist husband thinks it’s cool!
Yes, if you study nature it will teach you these principles too!
Awesome video Rachel! Love the analysis of your own and other paintings! We useful and inspiring!!!:) And thank you for the mention of course!! Very kind :)
My pleasure!
Ohhh Wowww! What have you here. This is amazing, thank you for this video. So cool!
My pleasure!
This. Is. So. Neat. Can start doing it immediately! Thank you!
It is amazing I agree
Wonderful as usual. You are a gift to the rest of us. I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Thank you. Kathryn
I'm so glad to hear that!
Thanks for this vídeo!
I liked your analysis of the works. Lovely paintings
Duly working on binge watching here :D And as many others said all over your videos - your content is really packed with information, and definitely offers so much more than more common beginner / do as I do - only stuff.
Yes I try hard not to waste anyone's time!
Wow 🤩 thank you for sharing that. I am so inspired by this!
I'm so glad 💗
I watched this last week and started applying it on the snowy mountain paintings I've been deep into lately. It's made a huge difference, especially where the ridge line meets the sky. My mountains are so much more glowy and don't look as pasted onto the sky. Thank you!
Yes! It works on everything! It is such a game changer for me to at least know this. I find that even if I only get at least 2 or 3 of the pairings it's a vast improvement over only having 1 pairing.
Thank you for being so generous with your insights and talent. I have learned so much from you in a short period of time. I get so excited and motivated by your tutorials, it is priceless.
Thank you so much for saying so 💗
Okay I just learned something that I kind of knew or heard about but did not know completely and how to appreciate & apply it to my own artwork or see it applied to others artwork. Definitely noticed in some of my paintings that I have successfully applied 2-3 of these to my artwork already without planning to do it on purpose, or at least not consciously. 😉😊😁Thanks so much for explaining this principle to me and sharing this informational video with us. Oh I forgot to answer the question: I would say some dark on dark values on the bridge of the muzzle and the brow of the left eye & ear as you are looking at the painting.
Thank you for commenting and I think you are right about the dark on dark values!
@@rachelparkervarner You’re welcome 😉 & cool!!💕
Brilliant! Another wonderful video! Love those dreamy lost edges.
Thank you 💗
Brilliant, Thank you!
You're welcome!
Fantastic advice thanks
My pleasure!
Love these tips!!!
Glad you like them Myrna!
Do see Michael Soloyev's Channel. His portraits are on the same principle and are amazingggggg! Now I know why they work, Rachel. Thanks so much for this.
I'll check it out!
@@rachelparkervarner I went to the one I saw that was stunning, Rachel and copied the link for you. He has got so much there it'll take a month of Sunday's to go thru it all! Haha.
ua-cam.com/video/_mfbNygZ79M/v-deo.html
Thank you for this valuable lesson. I was aware of the importance of darkest dark against lightest light but not of the other value pairings. Thanks again for sharing.
My pleasure!
I’m an experienced artist but I have never heard of this principle. This was so helpful and had given me ideas of how to improve my own paintings! Thanks so much for explaining this in depth. I love your work so much!
Thanks!
I appreciate it so much Eric!
Great tips!
Glad you like them Valeri!
so helpful!! never knew this!! I will keep it in mind from now on!
Glad it was helpful!
As the yt captions put it, they have that "genesic claw" (!)
Haha!
Excellent explanations!
Thanks!
James Gurney also has an amazing book called COLOR AND LIGHT guide for the realist painter
I have that one too!
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Wonderful explanation of this! I watched Nina of NVfineARTstudio right before this about connecting one's elements via values and textures, which had similar advice. Now, I have even MORE to "worry" about when painting. 😀 Even though your interest is animals (which you do magnificently) your portraits are stunning, and I think many would love to see a tutorial on those. The Japanese girl was jaw dropping. I have been there, and it is a wonderful representation. The way you handled the different aspects and drew our attention - wow! My only small nit (yeah, I know - everybody's a critic) is, for my preference, the phone kind of disrupts the cultural mood. It would be good to include for a photo, to show the dichotomy of new vs. traditional. It seems to draw my attention in the painting, as it was so different than the other elements in its modernity. Thanks you for sharing your talents with us!
I thought the Japanese girl was stunning. Very representative of what I saw when I was there. If I had her talent and skill level I would have painted a girl very similar. It takes me back to images of Japan.
@@verwilliams1 It certainly is stunning! Rachel is enormously gifted, and I admire her greatly. Even the paintings of her own that she does not like are excellent and far better than I could hope to produce. My preference was just without the phone.
I need to watch that video by @NVfineARTstudio - it sounds interesting : ) I liked the phone because it made this painting different than what you would expect. I do want to do more people tutorials, I just wish there was more time in the day!
@@rachelparkervarner People tutorials would be quite popular. Portraits are notoriously difficult.
My goal this year is to juzzzz ? my paintings with lost and found edges. Would you say the background needs to be done last to accomplish that?
The background can be done first or last. The trick is to find a reference that just gives you these lost and found edges are, where the light on light and dark on dark edges are, then you won't have to figure that part out!
Is what you're talking about called chiaroscuro?
Not exactly, but chiaroscuro has to do with the juxtaposition of lights and darks to create 3 dimensional form
This is a very good video, i think.I will try to implement some of the ideas