Seeing the Nuances.
Tone and value range awareness are both an acquired perception and a result of training. I see it spill out into my real life when I’ve spent a lot of time on a piece. The art itself becomes more interconnected, like an aesthetic ecology that develops and allows all sorts of subtle nuances. When the art is at that stage – we’re talking dozens to hundreds of hours – those interconnections begin to spontaneously generate in the world around me. They well up automatically and flow effortlessly everywhere,