Creating value with watercolor

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Progressive watercolor Excellent example of how to create atmospheric perspective: http://www.growcreativeblog.com/2012/03/progressive- watercolor-art-tutorial.html

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

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

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