Renowned painter Sharon Sprung imparts incomparable lessons in creating the illusion of life in this artistsnetwork.tv workshop. Working with a light box, she explains how light illumines form, and she defines basic terms like mid-tone, highlight, and cast shadow, as well as chroma, value, temperature, and hue.

Showing how to see in values, Sprung offers helpful tips so that you can readily translate value into color. Setting out her palette, Sprung then describes the properties of each color. Finally, she shows exactly how she mixes colors in order to create a vast range of lifelike flesh tones.

Building on the previous lesson on value and color, Sprung explains how different brushes are useful for creating lifelike effects. Working with light and shadow, she shows how to paint an eye, nose, and mouth. Pointing to a painting in process, she explains how she puts all these elements together. Finally, she turns her attention to a finished painting and analyzes the relationships between light and form, value, and color.

DVD. 78 minutes.