September 20th-September 24th

Gray Scale in Art

Guernica

Pablo Picaso

1937

Last week, the seventh graders learned about the use of "value" in a work of art. Value is an element of design that refers to light and dark. Value contrasts help us to see and understand a two-dimensional work of art. The students created gray scales, then painted tints and shades of a specific color. Tints are created when we add white to a color, shades are created when we add black. This background knowledge will help them in our next project when we create a still life of varying geometric shapes. Each seventh grader will be expected to use what they know about value by using shading to create "roundness" and "edges" to their still life rendering. We will use oil pastels to give our work a pop of color.