ARTS211 value

Graphite-Layered values-9th grade

Middle or High School Beginner Drawing Project focusing on Value and Contrast! Follow our classroom story on our Instagram @mrs_tfox - Happy Teaching! :) tiff

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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.

Explore advanced shading by layering shapes with cutouts. Create depth using tonal contrast in this 3D illusion art lesson.

I'm very tardy in posting these. It was a review assignment in graphite, done during the first week of school by my Intermediate and Advanced 2-D students, the Advanced kids having to do a 13 step value scale and the Intermediate kids doing a 10 step value scale. The lovely piece above was made by senior Shirley Sun (2nd year), and the 2 beauties below were completed by junior Jaimee Chirico (3rd year) and sophomore Hannah Park (2nd year).

Shading techniques: 1 and 2: