I've been hearing a lot lately from artists I respect, amongst them James Whistler, how value and line are of the utmost importance in a painting. Even more so than color, which is obvious in his most famous painting, "Whistler's Mother". Although I don't use black as liberally as he does, I took the wisdom to heart, and have been paying close attention to the values in my paintings. I think it paid off in the one above.
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