Value

What is value? How do you plan on employing it in your art?

Value is the different shades of colors ranging from dark to light that allows an object to look 3-dimensional.  I plan on employing value into my art by starting with the darkest color, and than shading from there to receive different values which work with my piece.  I can use techniques such as crosshatching and drawing with the charcoal to show the light coming onto the still object.

 Digital Photos:

I believe the most evocative picture is the photo to the right because the lighter value of the diamond reflects well against the dark tree.  I believe the left photo shows the most value in the value scale because there are many different values in the background, and different values within my fingertips and the diamond.  In the future, I will take similar pictures with the manual camera.  I will continue to explore value in different places in nature.