In this example I have painted different spheres. The bottom three are a white sphere, a #5 middle gray sphere, and a black sphere. I used my set of neutral grays to paint all of those and pre-planned the values of the darks and midtones of each prior to painting. In doing the colored spheres I used my neutral grays for the darks and mid-tones and worked out those values beforehand also. I referred to the Reilly book to work out the values in natural light setting. You also can do this exercise by putting up the different spheres in natural light and trying to copy the values. But again you will have difficulty as I previously proved with the cubes. You have to adjust the values as I did with the cubes even in a real life setup. These exercises really get you to understand the concept of the limits of your paint values. It also helps you to learn to paint in 3-D. Try this! You will learn so much!
