The color white is an interesting thing to work with.  By the additive theory the definition of white is the addition of all color.  In painting, white is used to cool colors down, to neutralize colors, to lighten colors when another color won't work, and/or to show what the lightest value you have to work with on your palette.  Over the last week I've been painting poster studies where the predominant color is white.  What I've found to be most interesting is that in order to show white or lightness, the "white" is just a value or two lighter than a [...]