Value / Self-Portrait

Study

Final Piece

Color – Value

Medium: Digital
Source: http://karengillistaylor.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/color-value-scales-inspire-artists-to-grow-their-skills/

Artist: Leanne Wildermuth
Year Produced: 2007
Medium: Oil Paint
Source: http://intricateart.com/monochromatic-evan-in-green/

Value is the term for the lightness or darkness of a color. This piece is a good example of value because the piece only uses one color, but uses an entire scale of value to create an interesting piece with a sense of depth. Value is used to create depth, light source, interest, and many other things.

Color – Hue

Medium: Digital
Source: http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-theory-intro.htm

Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Title of the Work: Starry Night
Year Produced: 1889
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night

Hue is basically the term for the different base colors (red,blue,yellow,ect…). The top picture is an example of a color wheel portraying the 12 most basic hues. The bottom is a piece that uses different hues very effectively, most specifically yellow and blue. Van Gogh uses yellow and blue in a complementary way to make the piece very pleasing to the eye, as well as these colors (the cool blue and the washed out yellow) providing a sense of calm. Using hues together in certain ways are very important because they can set the overall mood for a piece easily.

Value

Artist: Chuck Close
Title of work: Big Self Portrait
Year produced: 1967-68
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Source of image: http://www.walkerart.org/collections/artworks/big-self-portrait

This piece utilizes value extremely well. The fact that it’s done completely in black and white as well as being extremely photo realistic shows the impressive range of value that Chuck manages to use in the piece. He uses the darkest black all the way to white and every hue in between.

 

Artist: Paul Cadden
Title of Work: After
Year Produced: Unknown
Medium: Pencil on Recycled Cartridge paper
Source: http://www.paulcadden.com/#!portraits/c18ty

This is another beautiful example of value. In this piece he utilizes value in a way that allows him to express water photo-realistically, as well as the figure in the piece.