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