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.”
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