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Comment by Michael J. Severin on July 23, 2014 at 4:19

Looking at all of the great paintings for this workshop,  I noticed that there is a common thread permeating most of the work ........   The mountains and foreground were treated as 2 separate paintings.  Most of the artists painting this workshop, ran out of values while doing the mountains before they finally got to the foreground ..then had no where to go.  It is very difficult to lay down the proper mid light or mid dark as a first value simply because we need a solid reference point to judge what value that is.  John Crump illustrated this in his landscape video where he would put down his darkest dark first ..then judge the mids from that.  That is what I do also.  That first value or color you put down is very important, because everything else is keyed off of that ..the easiest and most accurate value I can do is my darkest dark ..then work from there.  Very nice work everyone!!! :)