Tidbits - on Tone

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. (Aristotle)

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all their permutations reign supreme. (David Louis)

Tonal hierarchy prevents visual anarchy. (Walter J. Phillips)

In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three – white, black and medium gray. (Stan Smith)

FOOTNOTE from the October Artzine and the "antlers vs horns" question: I'm pleased to report that I received MANY correct answers - y'all are an educated lot when it comes to natural history! It was such fun that I mailed out a number of artistic goodies, not just one.

And to be sure everyone does know the difference, indulge me in lecture mode for a moment:

• Antlers are made of bone (the fastest-growing in the animal kingdom), are shed and regrown annually, and generally have multiple points (or tines). Antlers are exclusive to males, with the exception of caribou (in which females grow small antlers as well).
• Horns are made of a keratin sheath, are not shed annually, and grow throughout the animal's life. In many species, both males and females have horns (mountain goats, bighorn, cattle, bison, etc.), but this is not a blanket rule (some African antelopes lack horns in females). In addition, there is one truly oddball horned species: the pronghorn not only has forked horns, it sheds the outer sheath annually.
  (BTW, rhino horns are not true horns; they're formed of compressed hair.)