Hunter College
School of Education
The Arts: an Interdisciplinary Experience

COMMUNICATING WITH TINTS & SHADES

                                                                   Prof John Toth

3A

VALUE PAINTING / TECHNOLOGY SKILLS LESSON

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Artwork under study:

            

ELSIE DRIGGS, PITTSBURGH, 1928                           JOHN TOTH, GENETIC CONCRETION, 2007

 

 

 

Generating Electronic Tints & Shades

 

 

This technology lesson will teach you how to create a 9 tone value scale using Microsoft Word. You will create a table; change the background color of a table cell and label the chart.

 

Create a 1 row by 9 column table from the Insert Table icon or from the main toolbar

Select TABLE > INSERT > TABLE from the Insert Table box make your choices and click OK. Your table appears.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next, right click on the table to open the menu. Select TABLE PROPERTIES > ROW > Click the SPECIFY HEIGHT box, and then enter 2 to increase the box size.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number each column. Click inside box 2. Select > BORDERS AND SHADING > SHADING >  in the FILL color box SELECT the gray tone #4  GRAY 12.5%. It is important to also SELECT the APPLY TO: CELL before you click OK. Repeat the process in each box, increasing the value by 12.5 percent each time.

 

9 TONES of Black and White
Middle Gray

1

0% black

2

12.5% black

3

25% black

4

37.5% black

5

50% black and white

6

67.5% black

7

75% black

8

87.5% black

9

100% black

TINTS  &  SHADES

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