Push and Pull

 I watched a YouTube video about 

Hans Hoffman the other day. 

He talks about the "push and pull" of 

color.

That inspired me to paint this using a pattern of 

made- up colors, but keeping them in the correct value.  

I tried to "push and pull" the  

 warm and cool, dark and light. 

Late Light

10 x 10 

oil 

This was a real stretch for me! 

I'm working on being less literal in my paintings

and this is a great way to push myself. 

A great exercise for a class.   

NOTE:

Here it is on "levels" setting 

(three values) 

on the Value Viewer app. 

If it works in three values,

chances are it will be a good painting. 

"Value does all the work,

color gets all the credit."

Hell yeah! 

(The image)