Value landscape

Take a glimpse and be inspired by the paintings you could create during your next visit to Pinot's Palette.

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…

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

I think out of every project I teach - this one has to be one of my absolute favorites. EVERY child is successful on some level.. and each piece of artwork created is gorgeous. This is one of those projects that hangs up in the hallway and gets "oooohhhs" and "aahhhhs" every time a class and/or teachers walk by! :) We begin by looking at my new and improved 'Value PPT'. I sunk like 2 hours into this baby getting it animated and awesome. We talk about value referring to the lightness or…

The Romantic works of Friedrich lend themselves to an interpretation of the landscape that can be divided into a value scale. In these two exercises Friedrich’s paintings were traced on traci…

This project turned out better than I hoped. A few weeks ago, I had the kids paint 4 sheets of paper with dark-light versions of a color. ...

Monochromatic Landscape Color Value Tints Shades

Tint and Shade landscapes

These small landscapes have been painted with watercolors, by 7th-grade students after a lesson about landscape and the representation of space with value scale. Here below a video tutorial to foll…