I am thinking a lot about the importance of value at the moment.  I think most people who have ever spent any time trying to paint realise that it is a hugely important topic but the monochrome studies I am doing at the moment are really reinforcing the crucial role they play in a picture. […]

As an artist I found that when you start learning to paint one of the first concepts you have repeatedly drummed into you is the importance of something called “edges”  Well, you are fairly certain you know what an edge is, its where an object ends, and where another object, or just some empty space

The problems of colour are many and varied right? So it makes sense to try and tackle them in some sort of order, to jump one fence at a time as it were rather than tackle everything at once. That’s one school of thought anyway. In modern times, say since the middle of the nineteenth