VALUE PAINTING

Prof. Toth

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Hunter College / Curriculum and Teaching

Inquiry:

How does VALUE in color define shades and tints that speak of nuance and variations that communicate meaning and  emotional content?                                                                     

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Objective: 

Consider a work of art as having both a ‘skills’ component and a ‘creative’ component.

ARTWORKS:

Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901–1966), The Artists Wife

Elsie Driggs, “Pittsburgh”

Charles Demuth,
Georgia O’Keefe,

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Vocabulary:

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 ‘visual’ 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.

ACTIVITIES: 

Skill Lesson:

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 light… in the middle .

Creative Lesson:

Use the skills of mixing values of B&W to create a painting that plays, experiments, discovers with a subject of your choice; this could be a design, abstraction, picture, painted sculpture, narrative, symbolic, doodle, or whatever you want, just explore SHADES AND TINTS OF BLACK AND WHITE.

At Home:  

Complete the Value Painting that you started in class

(Due in 1 week) (50 point (KSD)

Artistic Reflection:

How did the use of VALUE effect the content and feeling of your finished artwork?

Educational Reflection:

How does the role of the teacher change in a ’skills’ lesson as opposed to a ‘creative’ lesson?

Playing, thinking, expressing, noticing and constructing a world of possibilities from which we choose meaning.