Mary and I both enjoy puzzles so in our ‘spare’ time we have been twiddling bits of coloured cardboard.
As we were working on the sky and water of the current puzzle, I became really aware of how much my eye has been trained to the nuance of value by working puzzles.
The blue/greys of both the upper and lower part of the puzzle are very slight variations of the hues and I realized just how much I judge which piece goes where by the value of the hue.
Then I see the subtle changes in the hue itself – more purple, more grey, more pure blue.
If you really want to fast track training your eye for value, maybe a little puzzle challenge might be helpful?
I’m toying with bringing a puzzle to level one classes and just leaving it out somewhere for people to not necessarily make the puzzle but begin to analyse the value/hue relationships between the pieces.