Basic Art ConceptsIntroduction to

Value, Warm and Cool Colors,Hatching, Crosshatching.

And Stippling

Evelyn Cantrelle Loftin

Value• Value – The term value,

as it relates to art, refers to the lightness and darkness of color.

• A value change shows the varying degrees of a color moving from one intensity to the other.

This achromatic (black, white, and the endless shades of gray) palette illustrates an increase in value with each block.

This slide shows a gradual decrease in value from left to right. This is sometimes called a smooth gradation.

Warm Colors

Warm colors are often associated with fire and the sun.

Cool ColorsCool colors are often associated with water, sky, spring, and foliage, and suggest cool temperatures..

Hatching

• Hatching is creating tonal or shading effects with closely spaced parallel lines. When more such lines are placed at an angle across the first, it is called cross-hatching.

Hatching

CROSSHATCHING

Stippling• Stipple - Stipple is a

drawing, painting, or engraving method employing dots rather than lines. Stippled works can be produced with any of a variety of tools, including pencils, crayons, pens, and brushes.

The use of dots in increasing number create varying degrees of

value.

STIPPLING

Sources• ArtLex Dictionary. 29 March

2006. http://www.artlex.com/.

• Google Images

• Slide show created by Evelyn Cantrelle Loftin

Constructivist Poem• Write a 5-line poem in the following constructivist manner:• On the first line write a noun of your choice • On the second line write two adjectives joined by and to

describe this noun • On the third line write a verb and an adverb to describe this

noun in action • Start the fourth line with like or as followed by a comparison • Start the final line with if only followed by a wish • Below is an example of such a poem (written by the

Norwegian pupil Sven Grüner):• Politician

phoney and falselying desperatelylike a mocking birdif only I had the key to the bird cage

•http://home.online.no/~anlun/gram-po.htm

Poetry Quilt Tile• Create a 4” x 4” poetry tile.• Type your constructivist poem

on the tile• Draw a picture using Microsoft

PAINT! that reflects your poem content.

• Show evidence of value change, warm (boy) colors, cool (girl) colors, hatching, crosshatching, and stippling.

Evelyn Loftin