Graphite on paper
by Featured artist:
Jill Rohr
Navarre, Ohio
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Topic of the month:
VALUES
In painting as in life, you can get away with a great deal as long as you have your values right. – Harley Brown, Contemporary American artist and authorValue is simply the light and dark in your drawing – all of the tones that range from white to black. Being able to identify the proper values is far more important than recognizing the right color. Once you understand values you will have an easier time working with color.
One way to identify value is to squint at your reference photo and drawing. Squinting blurs the details and allows you to see the shapes and shades.
Dominant value is the major tone of your drawing. Squint at the reference and determine if the drawing you make from it will be predominantly light, medium or dark.
Work your drawing as a whole creating the background, if there is one, at the same time you work the subject matter. This will give your piece a greater continuity and help you see the background as an integral part of the whole instead of treating it as a have-to-do-to-get-it-over-with.
As you see in the featured drawing above, this piece is predominantly done in a medium value. Jill has carefully used black for accents and volume. She has anchored the child on a light base (the blanket) and allowed the background to be white, creating a pleasant vignette.
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