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When an artist asks me to critique a painting, one of the first things I do is convert their image to black and white. Why? Because in my opinion, getting the values right is foundational to creating a good painting. [...]

There are many ways artists can transfer an image to a substrate (in my case, watercolor paper) prior to painting. Tracing a photograph using a light box (or even a window), transferring the image with graphite paper, employing the grid method, and transferring by projection are all common methods used by artists today. [...]