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SARAH'S TIPS FOR OBSERVING TONAL HIERARCHY

Try painting or drawing some tonal studies, using just black, white and a mid-tone grey

This is an excellent exercise to reduce what you can see to the very basics of form and light. You could paint with your fingers if

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