Stan Miller Workshop

I attended Stan Miller's watercolor workshop March 24-27. It was sponsored by San Antonio Watercolor Group. His focus for this workshop was on value. Value is the lights and darks in a painting. I sometimes have a difficult time seeing value in my colored reference photographs. I love color and it is so important to me that I see color more easily than value. I usually have my reference photograph copied in gray scale to eliminate color altogether.

He furnished a grayscale reference photo for class use. We were to paint this face using any color (the more colors the better) and only concentrate on correct value. In his opinion, the color doesn't matter if you have the value correct.