Adventures in Value

The 6th grade students continue to work with the Art Elements, line and value this 6 weeks.  

  The students have been using color to create value, like in the project, Spooky Paper Houses. In this new project, Adventures in Value, students will use only pencil to create a range of values. 


What is Value?  Value is defined as the lightness and darkness of a color. Having values in artwork, creates contrast just like in the picture, at the bottom, by Georges Seurat, "Sunday afternoon on the Isle de Grande-Jatte".  


 
So that students will have an understanding of what is meant by light and what is meant by dark, they will create a Value Scale. This scale will be used by the students to measure the lightness and darkness of the bottles they are shading.  Every students will be different because we all don't "see" lightness and darkness the same.



Here are the Criteria for grading on this project:

• A simple line drawing of 7-10 bottles             20
• Shading of the bottles using the 6 linear        30 
•   shading techniques practiced in class
• Use of Value - most values from scale are    30
•    represented in each bottle
• Craftsmanship - how well did you work        20
  
•    in class, neat, use of time. etc.