1. Value (Element of Art) is the lightness and darkness of a color.
is used in black, white, and gray, but also in colored artwork.

2. Value changes can create:
Depth of Space
Illusion of Form
Contrast
Emphasis

3. Light and Dark Shade Tint
The degree to which a color is mixed with black or is decreasingly illuminated; gradation of darkness
Tint
A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lighten and to lessen its saturation

4. Value changes: Depth
The closer objects and figures are to the audience of an artwork, the darker they will need to be.

5. Value changes: Emphasis
Most of this design is made with lower levels of contrast in value.
Your eyes keep going back to the black next to the white.

6. Value changes: Form
Using different shades or tints of any color can help create the illusion of a 3/D form.

7. Sample of a value gray scale, using line to shade

8. Compare these Picasso paintings regarding value.

9. How did Mary Cassatt use value in these paintings?