Color value painting

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…

Color maestro Carol McIntyre wonders if you ever become frustrated mixing with white? She offers a few secrets and shows you some results.

Learn how to start a painting with the first three (light, medium and dark) color values, in order to help create a realistic sense of light from the start.

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Monochromatic Landscape Color Value Tints Shades

Color maestro, Carol McIntyre, shares exercises to help painters in seeing colors as values. She believes it is s trained skill.

Like the Value Landscapes posted earlier this month, this lesson was inspired by Miriam at Arteascuola. However, these were "painted" with pixels on the computer rather than regular paintbrushes. Each year 4 student completed their own landscape in less than 10 minutes but still had valuable experience with using tone to create depth within a two dimensional artwork. After we observed and discussed the scenes created by Miriam's students the children took turns at making their own value…