Scale in art

Principles of design: Scale This represents scale because this image shows how big whales are compared to a tiny person kayaking.

Clever juxtapositions by photographer Stephen McMennamy.

Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor who makes large replicas of everyday objects. He was born in 1929 and moved to Chicago in 1936. He wen...

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Gulliver’s dinner, the world’s largest tape measure and a cucumber killer whale ... these artworks that play with perspective will bend your eyes and your mind

The idea was to some up with a creative way of creating a scale with 11 values from black to white and everything in between. The human eye can only see 44 different values in between black and white. Apparently the most a person has ever created without using a computer is 12. Here are 11.

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As evident in this collection of incredible large-scale paper installations, paper's role in art transcends acting as a simple blank canvas.

Balance in art refers to the distribution of visual weight. Learn more about how to master this key design principle.

These value scales were done by my 2nd year 2-D kids as a warm-up exercise at the beginning of the school year. Yeah, I know I'm very late in posting them. See if you can find the scale in this first piece by junior Belinda Wu. This is her first year with me and she is coming to me with exceptional skills. She has cleverly hidden the scale in her table tops. Her attention to detail and her shading abilities are remarkable. This next piece by senior Halah Elsahhar is lovely. Her craftsmanship…