Color?...have to have color??

I do not necessarily need color, but it can add a very different feel to the overall interpretation. In the art world different colors are labeled as 'Hues'. 'Tone' is how light or dark a color is. The image below I found here.


This obviously shows the different tones and a small portion of different hues. I have painted a painting starting only with two paints, black and white. From the two basic hues, I had to paint my still life showing only the tones of the subjects before me. It was challenging but helped me to think more about what I was painting.

Practice:
I have broken out the paints!! I opened my box with my paintbrushes and oh..how I have missed them! We never painted masterpieces but we had spent a lot of time together! So, I did my basic tone changes with blue and black!














I used the different tones of the black to do a little ball...

The darkest black shows the shadow and the lightest gray shows the highlight. I had fun! I cant wait to paint something! So next week I will try to find something interesting to paint and or sketch to get the wheels turning!


This is me getting in the groove.....(courtesy of my famous photographer boyfriend...he wanted copyrights)