Painted Raven Studio

Have you ever heard the expression ‘value does all the work and color gets all the credit’? Well it’s true and before I start painting I’m going to do a couple of value studies and then move on to making color decisions…. What color to tone the background? What colors will I be using? What about the background? Canvas or paper …ugh… I’m going to have to just lean in to the decision making process - ha!