Painting in the Dark

  In a class taught by Mark Chatov we did figure painting in very bad light. I thought it was just logistics, in order to have light on the model with 16 painters gathered around it was the only solution. But Mark told us that he always paints in low light. The advantage is that you see value on your painting more easily.
  I painted at my friend Trudy's studio last week and ended up doing my own set up in a dark corner. When I finished the painting and brought it out into daylight it was like Christmas to see all the bright colors. Trudy's yard was full of these beautiful hydrangeas.