Adventures in Value

Artist Examples

Value: Lightness or darkness of a color

Larry Blackwood

Value Scale: arrangement of tones from light to dark.

Tone: the shade or quality of a color; the level of light or dark on the value scale

MonochromaticTints and shades of a single hue

Tint: White added to a single color

Shade: Black added to a single color

Ansel Adams

Chris Van Allsburg

M.C. Escher

Another Escher

Lyonel Feininger

Juan Gris

Georges Seurat

Creating Forms