Susie Short watercolor workshop .....New way to develop a watercolor painting

Last weekend I took a 3 day watercolor workshop with Susie Short.
http://www.susieshort.com
She taught the class a different way to find the different values of a photo and then paint from those values.

Using tracing paper...

1. Start with a line drawing.




2. Next find the darkest darks in photo and leave white and blacken everything else.





3. Third step is to find all the medium values of the photo and blacken everything else.





4. Fourth step is to find the lightest lights of the photo and blacken everything else.




After doing those 4 steps I was able to find the different values and to produce my watercolor.

This is a different way of finding values, a little labor intensive, but I can see how this can work.