Value in art

Value study

To continue our journey to discover the colors, with the year 7 classes, we painted landscapes in tempera tonal gradation. The forms that become more clear to the horizon can give a sense of distan…

What is value in art?Generally, people think a color is something you find across a rainbow, in all its many variants and names, such as red, blue, violet, sage, aubergine, etc. However, color itself has three components: hue, saturation, and, value. If you want to create beautiful color harmony in your work, your values must be accurate. It is impossible to have good color harmony and design in your paintings if you are not skilled with values. Value in art is one of the 7 elements of art…

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These were done by my Intermediate and Advanced 2-d students as a warm up/drawing review at the beginning of the year. I'm just a little tardy getting them posted. My Intermediate class had to do a ten step value scale and my Advanced kids a 15 step scale. They were allowed to be as creative as possible with their subjects that their scales were put into. The whole thing was done in graphite. Above we have senior Michael Chen (Art II) with this very clean piece, and below is senior Crislyn…

Value scales using line

'value cubes' (SRJC) in High key & low key value range

Value is a term we use to refer to lights and darks, which are arguably the most important of all the visual elements. Without value variations we could not even see the subject - in pitch black or blinding light or even thick gray fog, for example, we see nothing.