In my art classes, students start with The Drawing Course: Understanding the Use of Line, using vine charcoal. (That was a new term for me: vine charcoal.) Next is the Tone Course: Understanding the Use of Light and Dark, using vine and compressed charcoal.

In the middle of my last class, I finished the Tone Course. (Oh. I wasn’t expecting that.)

And started Beginning Oil Painting: Bringing Together Line and Tone using Oil Paint. (Definitely not expected when I walked in that morning.)

Alert the media.

Mixing for tones in oil paint

We begin the oil painting lessons limited to only two colors: Titanium White and Raw Umber. Good idea. All the course materials were written by the instructor, Elizabeth Locke.