element of art - value
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THE FOURTH ELEMENT
Value
VALUE
The lightness and darkness of a color,
VALUE is a achieved with SHADING.
Shading: ADD dark
Highlighting: Take away dark/ADD
light
VALUE SCALE
Value scales can be used as shading practice and as a guide to
determine if you achieved the correct values in an artwork.
Good art has a variety of value, from the blackest black, to the whitest white.
FOUR WAYS OF SHADING
The first is
STIPPLING,
shading with
DOTS.
HATCHING
Shading
with a
series of
lines
going in
one
directio
n
CROSS HATCHING
Shading with a
series of lines
going in TWO
directions
BLENDING
Shading by
smoothing out the values so
they “blend”
into each other