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Value studies are just a part of my normal process of making a painting. They save me a ton of time and cut out a great deal of guesswork by giving me a roadmap to follow when I'm working on the final piece.

So here's the value study I did for "The Joker's Calling Card" in my gallery. Also you'll see that I made sample swatches of all of the major colors I used when making the painting. The swatches are incredibly valuable for trying to match colors later down the road should I ever need to correct something. Since there's a decent amount of color change between wet acrylics and dry acrylics, it's very difficult to try and mix wet paint to match dry paint. So I can continually dab my wet paint into my swatches hit them with a blow dryer and see how close I am to matching the color. This way you're not testing any colors on the actual surface of the painting.

The Joker and Batman characters © DC Comics
This image of The Joker and Batman © Walter O’Neal 2006

Description
Value studies are just a part of my normal process of making a painting. They save me a ton of time and cut out a great deal of guesswork by giving me a roadmap to follow when I'm working on the final piece.

So here's the value study I did for "The Joker's Calling Card" in my gallery. Also you'll see that I made sample swatches of all of the major colors I used when making the painting. The swatches are incredibly valuable for trying to match colors later down the road should I ever need to correct something. Since there's a decent amount of color change between wet acrylics and dry acrylics, it's very difficult to try and mix wet paint to match dry paint. So I can continually dab my wet paint into my swatches hit them with a blow dryer and see how close I am to matching the color. This way you're not testing any colors on the actual surface of the painting.

The Joker and Batman characters © DC Comics
This image of The Joker and Batman © Walter O’Neal 2006