An Artist's Guide to Plein Air Painting Oct. 2015 | Page 29

P a g e | 28 STEP 5: BLOCK IN THE MID-VALUE SHAPES Start to bring in shadows and place them with bold strokes. They can be refined later. Here I have started to put in shadows then the first colour notes using mid-tones. I have an idea where the darks, lights and the colour values that will be used. From this point on it becomes an intuitive process of evaluation, correction and application of more refined colour notes. Figure 15 Start to block in the mid-tone shapes An Artist’s Guide to Plein Air Painting Malcolm Dewey