VALUE & COLOR — THE DECONSTRUCTION LAB
Your Color Work Isn’t a Color Problem.
It’s a value problem. Learn to see and control light and dark first — so you can stop chasing the perfect color and start making stronger, more convincing paintings.
INCLUDED WITH YOUR DECONSTRUCTION LAB MEMBERSHIP
All 5 courses + ongoing Lab Journal studio lessons.
What You’ll Learn
How to build and use a value scale
Where your colors actually sit on that scale
How to tint and shade without killing your color
The split primary palette and why it matters
Tonal vs. chromatic painting — two lanes, two completely different results
How to paint light on form using any medium
Where this course fits
Five courses, one path.
Drawing Fundamentals: Structure is the permission slip. This is where you build it.
Drawing Is Everything: You don't have a drawing problem. You have a thinking problem.
Design & Composition: Most painting problems aren't paint problems. They're composition decisions you never made.
Value & Color: Most painting problems aren't color problems. They're value problems. (You are here)
Acrylic Progressions: This one teaches you how to think with paint.
Bonus Lab Courses
Watercolor Progressions: Watercolor isn't fragile. This course proves it.
Mixed Media: The most open, most spontaneous course in the Deconstruction Lab.
Learn the complete system. Keep applying it through a new studio lesson every other week.