Value drawing

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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.

You will be completing 2 projects that will help you improve your shading skills.

VALUE SCALES 7TH GRADE ART WHEEL - 3RD QUARTER - 2017-2018 graphite & colored pencil accents Let me introduce you to probably one of the most talented 7th graders I had the pleasure of working with last year, Itzel Huerta. The piece above was the very first piece she created for me and when she turned it in I was blown out of the water. Can you find her 3 value scales in the piece? OMG, this is so not 7th grade level. I was absolutely delighted to have her aboard. And lucky for me she is…

These were done by my Intermediate and Advanced 2-d students as a warm up/drawing review at the beginning of the year. I'm just a little tardy getting them posted. My Intermediate class had to do a ten step value scale and my Advanced kids a 15 step scale. They were allowed to be as creative as possible with their subjects that their scales were put into. The whole thing was done in graphite. Above we have senior Michael Chen (Art II) with this very clean piece, and below is senior Crislyn…

I know what you’re thinking. Just another watercolor pear painting… Right ? Overused and not very original ! But pears, like many other fruit and vegetables, are really useful forms for studying some of the fundamentals of watercolor painting. They generally have a very simple shape, so even if your outline sketch isn’t accurate you’ll

Value scale project

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