Color value painting

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…

Color maestro Carol McIntyre wonders if you ever become frustrated mixing with white? She offers a few secrets and shows you some results.

What is color value and how can it help your painting? Discover how to see values in color, with the help of color value chart examples.

Color maestro, Carol McIntyre, shares exercises to help painters in seeing colors as values. She believes it is s trained skill.

Students can use this worksheet to practice shading, using different color values.

For some reason I find it easiest to teach value by going paint, then crayon, then colored pencil then graphite. So we start with paint. Official definition of Value (tone, tint, shade...) "refers to the use of light and dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork." Middle school definition of value..."this is hard, why do we have to do this....I want to do something fun!" Ah teaching value at a more advanced level can be a pain in the butt. I find younger students are perfectly happy to learn…

I'll use a little color theory and the color wheel to show you how to come up with a color scheme for your next art project.

Monochromatic Landscape Color Value Tints Shades