Create Your Own Value Checker

Creating you own value checker can be not only a great exercise to practice value mixing but, also an excellent tool for painters of any medium. It's a tool that you can use to improve your paintings whether you are a beginner or an advanced artist. Oil, acrylic, pastel or watercolor painters can use this tool to make the painting process easier and faster.

Viktoria Majestic is an award winning fine artist with over 10 years of experience as a painting instructor. Viktoria uses straight-forward, easy to understand methods to help his students advancement in painting.

Values play a very important role in painting. Without the right value shapes there is no realistic painting. Therefore, values are considered as one of the most important foundational elements in art. However, even for the trained eyes of an experienced artist, sometimes difficult to pin point an exact value.

Making a value checker makes this rather tricky task a lot easier, thus helps to paint a painting without major value mistakes. This value checker is an excellent tool if you are using reference photos for your work. All you need to do is to print out your reference in black & white and with the help of this mini course you will be on your way to a realistic painting.

I demonstrate step by step what tools you need, how to draw your value scale, how to mix nine different values, how to apply it, and finally how to use it with your reference photo.

Who is this course for?
Anyone who would like to make it easier to paint the correct values in a painting. It helps beginners to make figure out otherwise difficult values in their reference photos.

It is also a good tool for advanced artists, if they like to speed up their painting process, by spending less time on correcting values in their paintings.