School of Education
Curriculum & Teaching
Prof. John Toth, Ph.D. / jtoth@hunter.cuny.edu
THE ARTS
VALUE PAINTING
TINTS & SHADES
for the post modern educator
CONCEPT: VALUE PAINTING:
TINTS &
SHADES
- Introduce the process of mixing tints and shades as an entry point for developing nuance in descriptive writing.
- Introduce differences between skill and creative activity.
- Introduce Active Reflection.
AIM: Understand ways in which art
communicates through a language of shades and tints that opens language to nuance and descriptive meaning.
ART ELEMENT: value, tints & shades
LINE OF INQUIRY: How does Elsie Driggs and Alberto Giacometti use tints and shades to create mood?
EDUCATION LINE OF INQUIRY: How does
VALUE in color define shades and tints that speak of nuance and variations
that communicate meaning and emotional content?
The Arts Standards for NY
The Arts Standard 2
performance:
Dance - Understand the roles of dancers, audience, and creators in a variety of dance forms and contexts.
Music - Use technology to manipulate sound.
Theater - Use theatre technology skills and facilities in creating a theatrical experience.
Visual Arts - Develop skills with a variety of art materials.
Rubric
art supplies
1:45
15
ART / PAINTING / Shaded Values
Alberto Giacometti The Artists Wife (Annette) (Swiss, 1901–1966)
John Toth, Chair, 1995, ac/wood
MUSIC ELEMENT: tones, scale
Driggs
Elsie Driggs, Pittsburgh, 1928, o/c
SKILL ACTIVITY: Choose and complete ONE skill activity.
GOAL: Engage in a process of refining the nuances between different tints and shades. Explore the use tints and shades of black and white to create light & shadow, spatial depth, mood or form.
OBJECTIVE: ART - Use black
and white tempera paint to create 8-10 shades and tints ,
with black at one end of the spectrum and white at the other end of the
spectrum. Your middle color
should visually appear to be centered; not too dark or not too lightÉ in the
middle .
OBJECTIVE: VALUE PAINTING: SKILLS : Technology: Tones
Create a
scale of 8 even tones of black and white.
SAMPLE ACTIVITY
Shades & Tints Value Chart - use this 8 tone chart to test the smoothness of your painted tints and shades.
2:15
3:00
45
15
CREATIVE ACTIVITY: Choose and complete ONE creative activity.
VALUE PAINTING: CREATIVE
ART: Write a brief description of a situation where light and darkness played an important role. Use the
skills of mixing tints and shades to make a tonal study with
tempera paint. Write a descriptive essay, repaint, rewrite.
ART: Choose a subject of your choice; this could be a design,
abstraction, picture, painted sculpture, narrative, symbolic, doodle, or
whatever you want, just explore
MUSIC - Play 8 tones on the piano that fit the mood. Play 3 chords in 3 keys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZysu9QcceM&NR=1
student work examples
VALUE PAINTINGS
ART HISTORY :
Elsie Driggs
SOCIAL STUDIES:
WPA Artists
AESTHETIC EDUCATION:READ
Maxine
Greene. Variations
On A Blue Guitar,
ÒDefining Aesthetic Education," "Notes on Aesthetic Education,Ó
Please complete this Survey
VOCABULARY:
Value:
light, dark,
tints,
shades,
tones,
middle gray, mixing,
blending.
Value- Value in terms of color describes the relative lightness and darkness of a color. Value may also describe the proportion effect, as of light and shade, as in an artwork.
SHADE- A shade of color, describes the effect of adding or mixing black to any color.
TINT- A tint of a color describes the effect of adding white to any color
MIDDLE GRAY- This is a color that has a ÔvisualÕ weight that looks balance between black in white. However many grey colors are made up of even mixtures of primary colors that create more complex greys that interact with single colors.
file: ValuePainting2008.htm
Survey: Value Painting Survey