Basic Art Concepts

1. Basic Art Concepts Introduction to Value, Warm and Cool Colors, Hatching, Crosshatching. And Stippling Evelyn Cantrelle Loftin

2. 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.

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

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

5. Warm colors are often associated with fire and the sun. Warm Colors

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

13. COOL WARM

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

15. Hatching

17. CROSSHATCHING

19. 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.

20. The use of dots in increasing number create varying degrees of value.

23. STIPPLING

26. Sources • ArtLex Dictionary. 29 March 2006. http://www.artlex.com/. • Google Images • Slide show created by Evelyn Cantrelle Loftin

27. 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): • Politicianphoney and falselying desperatelylike a mocking birdif only I had the key to the bird cage • http://home.online.no/~anlun/gram-po.htm

28. 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.

29. sample tile Evelyn Loftin

30. tile sample