1. Creating value with watercolor

2. Value with pencil
To create value with a pencil you apply more or less pressure with your hand to make lighter or darker marks. You also blend to get a smooth transition from light to dark. You can also use your eraser to get bright whites.

3. Value with Paint
To create tints and shades with acrylic or oil paint you add black or white.
Color + white = tint
Color + black = shade

4. Value with watercolor
To create value with watercolor you need to add more water or more paint.
Color + more water = tint
Color + less water = darker, true hue

5. Let’s practice!
Take a strip of watercolor paper and create a value scale with water color paint.
We do not mix the paints in the watercolor palette. Make sure you wash your brush each time before you switch to a new color.
This value scale will be tints only. We will not be adding black to the colors.
On your strip of paper, mark off three rows of eight squares.

6. Tint (add more water)
Tint (add small
Amount of water)
Hue (very little water)
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Brown
Black

7. Mixing
Play with mixing colors. Take some blue and paint it on your paper. Rinse your brush and get some green on your brush and paint it on top of the blue paint. This should create a blue/green color.
Try red/orange, yellow/green, red/purple, etc.
Make sure to keep your paints clean!

8. Now that we’ve practiced, let’s create some art!
Atmospheric perspective
Atmospheric perspective is a method of creating the illusion of depth in a painting or drawing by changing color to simulate changes effected by the atmosphere on the colors of things seen at a distance.
That’s a fancy way of saying that the objects closer are darker and more detailed and the objects in the back are lighter and less clear.

11. Foreground, Middle ground, and Background
Foreground - Objects in the front of the artwork
Middle ground – objects in the middle of the artwork
Background – objects in the back of the artwork

17. Progressive watercolor
Excellent example of how to create atmospheric perspective:
watercolor-art-tutorial.html

18. Steps Tape off a half inch border on your paper with painters tape.
Choose one color for your atmospheric perspective
Have at least 5 tints of that color in your finished piece
Make sure the front row is the darkest with sharp lines of detail and each layer must get lighter as it goes back.
Due Thursday, October 5th

19. Quiz
We have a quiz on Thursday over atmospheric perspective, watercolor, grid drawing, proportion, Realism, composition, scale, middle ground, foreground, background, positive space, and negative space

20. Sketchbook #4
Choose an interesting object and zoom into the object drawing it in a large scale. Ex: pinecone, seashell. Due Thursday, October 12th