Color and value art

To continue our journey to discover the colors, with the year 7 classes, we painted landscapes in tempera tonal gradation. The forms that become more clear to the horizon can give a sense of distan…

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Monochromatic Landscape Color Value Tints Shades

This week 4th grade will start their Spooky Sky value paintings! Here's how we created ours! Materials: Crayola Tempera Paint Big Kid's Choice brushes q-tips paint cups Value is the element of art that has to do with the lights and darks of a color. In this painting, I only used purple, white, and black to create it. When you add white to a color, that creates a tint. When you add black to a color, that creates a shade. (think dark like a shadow, to remember it!) After my background was dry…

Colored Pencil & Ink, Southern California, 2018

This project turned out better than I hoped. A few weeks ago, I had the kids paint 4 sheets of paper with dark-light versions of a color. ...