Grouping Values

This is the key to giving your artwork impact and clarity

John Singer Sargent admired the way Frans Hals classified his values (“values” are the light and dark tones in a painting).

"You must classify the values," Sargent wrote. "If you begin with the middle-tone and work up to the lights and down towards the darks -- so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks -- you avoid false accents.”