His demonstration painting took us right to the heart of the day's lesson...to get the composition and values correct at the start. #colorgetsalltheglorybutvaluedoesallthework Dividing a large canvas into 4 sections, he painted one light-valued scene, one middle-value scene, one dark-value scene, and one final scene evenly weighted with all 3 values.

The reason it looks so fabulous is that it is the work of a Master... who was teaching all of us passionate students how to create something beautiful.
Tomorrow (Day 2) we will be allowed to play with color. That will be in the next blog post. Thanks for reading!!