Value,+Color+and+Mood

Value, Color and Mood

The ** STUDY ** of ** VALUE **

The **absence of light** is called a **shadow**. Shadow and shading are **different things**. Shading is the **act of marking to depict the effects of light** on an object. Shadow is **what is left from the artists drawing** those effects of light. Value is **measured** using a **value scale**. They run from **light to dark covering all the grays** between.
 * Value ** is the **observation of light on an object**.

Value is an introduction to the **ILLUSION of DEPTH**. Value gives an object the **illusion of** **form**. Drawn on a **flat surface**, this is an **illusion** as drawings are flat. Until shaded, they are in fact, **shapes**. Once shaded, they become **forms, 2d to 3d**.

To depict value the artists uses **marking or shading techniques.** These are **hatching, cross hatching, scribbling, stippling, broken line, varied line, contour line, hard edge and any combination**. Cross Hatching with scribbling tend to **hide** marks.

Value does more than just shade objects. It depicts depth and space. It can depict overlapping or the space between objects. It creates **atmosphere** both **natural** (fog) and **emotional,** ( melancholy ).

**Dutch Painting** is a great example of the use of value. These painters tended to use **natural light**, but for **emphasis** they would create **light** or **light sources**.

The link below Has a wide range of still life examples. [|www.pinterest.com/ragnabes/still-life/]

**Picasso's** Blue and Rose periods, **Rembrandt's** work and **George Innes** and the **Tonalists** are good examples of the emotional or **psychological effects** of Value**. Impressionists** also used value to a wide effect, but then again they were a painting the **effects of light** and to them, **color was light, and light was color.**

There is not much **difference** save for **material handling**, that separates black and white and color. Here we would start using terms like **tints and shades and complements.**

Rembrandt Claude Monet

ChardinChardin Chardin, a geometrical analysis of the paintings construction

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Chardin Natura Mortem Chardin

Phillippe Champaign, Vanities s Frans Synder, Natura Mortem or Xenia ?

Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Chardin Jan Van Eyck Note details on table. Vermeer Jan Van Eyck Jan Van Eyck Vermeer Aelbert Jansz Van Schoor Pieter Claesz Velasquez, Spanish and is considered on of the greatest painters of all time. he painted dignity in to his portraits and the material, the medium was never hidden. it was always paint.

Below is a gallery of Van Gogh. Van Gogh was Dutch and he was Deeply influenced by that painting culture and the German Expressionist movement.

Notice, simple, centered more or less, focal point un mistakable.









Edward Manet Is arguably one of the most famous Impressionist. His use of Spanish and Dutch painting was a synthesis of ideas concerning composition and contrast and value. Below are some of his small still life paintings. They are simple depictions of floral arrangements. They maybe no more than color studies but they are works or art and beauty on their own. They also follow in the footsteps of a deep painting tradition ff small scale still life painting.







Quiz 1) What is **Value**? 2) Is there a difference between **black and white and color**? 3) We are using **chalk** Pastels. How are they like **pure** color? 4) Define a **shadow** in terms of **light**. 5) Define **shading** in terms of **value**. What are the **four characteristics of Value** 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) What was **Valasquez's** connection to **Manet?** 11) What was the **Dutch** connection to **Manet**? 12) Look at a Manet **Foral painting**. How is a **mood** cast? 13) Atmosphere has **two characteristics**. What are they? 14) How does the **window** in a Vermeer tend to **dominate the atmosphere or mood** of the painting? 15) How has **Hollywood** or the motion picture and **TV** world used **value**? Or What have they learned from great painting? Bonus, How does **Value** effect **composition**?