Golden-Age illustrators, such as Robert Fawcett below, often planned their compositions in black and white, throwing big areas into inky black shadows.
(Scan courtesy Illustration Art blog.)
Painters have to work at creating contrast. If we don’t, our paintings get the “middle-value-mumbles,” the tendency to paint everything in the middle of the tonal ra…
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