Values
Values reviews the value scale and Five Tone Values including highlight, body tone, body shadow, reflected light and cast shadow.
Carol Santora, PSA, is an award-winning contemporary animal artist living in Kennebunk, Maine, specializing in animal and wildlife paintings and pet portraits of cows, horses, sheep, farm and domestic animals, dogs and cats, the big cats, moose, bear in pastel and acrylic.
Value
Value is the difference in tones of light and dark.
Light tones are "high" in value, dark tones are "low" in value.
Values create form, the shape of the image and a sense of volume or 3-dimensionality.
The use of different kinds of lines and dots, alone or in groups, and cross-hatching can also create tonal values & texture.
Value Scale
A value scale is a series of steps from pure white to black with thousands of grays in between. It is usually depicted with 10 boxes or shades for use in drawing and painting, and with pastels in sorting them by value.
Five Tone Values
When light falls on an object, Five Tone Values emerge:
- Body tone - the color value of the object.
- Body shadow - the shadow that lies on the crest or curve of a rounded form as it turns away from the light.
- Cast shadow - the darkest shadow; an object blocks the light and a cast shadow is created behind the object.
- Reflected light - a dim light that is bounced back onto an object as passes by it causing light to fall on surfaces around object.
- Highlight - the brightest light; the light that falls most directly on an object.
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