I was having lunch with an artist friend yesterday. He asked me: "You have done so much research about color, but how come you paint so many paintings that there is NO color on them?" That was a very good question. Yes, I did a lot in my color study, and have learned a lot, but understanding "why" would not give me immediately the "how" to show effects on my paintings. However, painting with no color is actually a good practice of understanding the basics of color. This value study shows how important of the black-n-white relationship making a painting work. Secondly, this one shows how to make the transparent and opaque paints work together. Third, even on this monochromatic painting, the color temperature relationship from dark to light is still playing an important role to hold the painting together.
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