General Tonality -153

Pictures have a dominant value, an overall value, that must be considered along with darkest dark and lightest light when deciding the values to use in a painting. While the uninitiated think we match values one-to-one experience painting from life soon disabuses one of that idea and we are forced to see relationally after all.

In Response to Anon

QUESTION:What is the 'general tonality' you refer to and is there a 'general color' as well?