1. Value
An art element concerned with
lightness or darkness.

2. Value Scale
Represents a range of lights and darks

3. Contrast
Strong
differences
between light
and dark
Henry O. Tanner
The Banjo Lesson
1893
49 x 35 1/2 in. oil
on canvas
University Museum
Hampton, Virginia

4. Tints &Shades
variations of dark and light in color
created by adding white or black

5. Shading
technique used to create shadow

6. Drawing with Value

7. a sphere drawn with value

8. Highlight
An area or a spot in a drawing, painting,
or photograph that is strongly illuminated

9. Chiaroscuro
• From the Italian meaning light-dark.The
use of value contrasts to represent the
effects of light and shadow

10. Caravaggio
Saint
Jerome
1600
A master of light and shadow in painting

11. Chuck Close
Contemporary painter - Realism
Portraits based upon grids and values

12. Chuck Close

13. Hatching
applying tone using parallel stokes, this is
usually done with broken or wavy lines.

14. Cross Hatching
formed by applying one layer of parallel
lines over another

15. Albrecht Durer
A classic Durer engraving
with hatching.

16. Stippling
• creating tone with clusters of dots, these
can be applied with a pen or fine tipped
brush

17. detail of a newspaper engraving
with stippled shadows