Quick Tip 19 - Creating a Value Line

In Quick Tip 19 - Creating a Value Line art teacher Dianne Mize demonstrates her process of refining color values.

[SomethingImpromptu]

I started watching your videos closer to tip 400-something, but went back to the early ones specifically looking for you to address this, so I’m glad I found it!

But what I’m curious about is whether there’s a particular black you gravitate towards using as the darkening color in these value lines? I’ll often see you lay them out with a white, the main hue, & a black, but I’ve never seen you mention what the whites & blacks are. I have learned enough to know that usually I’m going to want to use a transparent mixing white like zinc white (unless I’m trying to really lean towards a high key & achieve VERY pastel colors while sacrificing some mixing precision, or something like that, enough to justify using titanium white or something else so strongly tinting), but I’m curious if you default to a particular black for this purpose or general shading? Or maybe it just depends on the painting & the colors you’re mixing (whether your use-case would benefit from a warmer or a cooler/more neutral black)? Anyway, thanks for all your wonderful teachings, & for making them freely available for all. Your channel really is an excellent resource, for beginners & intermediates alike.

[alkasarin]

Simple but very useful tip to go ahead as a painter

[KathyBath]

Can you have a value line with watercolour Diane?