Claude Glass Painting Exercise
Looking through a brown glass facilitates seeing values, much as putting a sepia tinted filter on a photo makes it tonal. The modern day Claude Glass effect is easily achieved with a click on the computer.Step 1.Take a landscape or still life photo and put a filter on it to make it sepia toned. Paint a watercolor or ink wash tonal painting from this. This is a much easier way of training the eye to see the value range...