Art Topics

In real life, light reveals the form of an object.  Without light, we cannot see forms. Light enables us to perceive the world around us as shapes that differ in brightness. Artists express lightness or darkness as “values” (or tones). Stronger values are dark. Lighter values…

The concept of value in art is better understood with a few visual examples.  After all, the definition in words can be tricky to understand.  Value (also known as tonal value or tones) is: “the relative lightness or darkness of a color”. Ok… Great! …

You’ve probably heard artists talking about “tone” when describing art. When I first started watercolor painting I was a bit confused by all the vocabulary. One of my favorite artists Stan Miller talks a lot about value and tone and describes this as one…