{"id":1987,"date":"2011-06-18T10:31:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T03:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?page_id=1987"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:02:17","slug":"saturday-school-6-value-shifting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/workshops\/tutorials\/color-inspirations-exercises\/saturday-school-6-value-shifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Value Contrast (p.48)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Middle Value Muddle<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>To make the project in Chapter 3, Ruffle Spiral Brooch, we ask you to\u00a0pick a light value clay and a dark value clay\u00a0based on colors from your collage.\u00a0 If you are having trouble seeing the values, try\u00a0making a black and white copy of your collage using a color copier. The grayscale will be better than on a black and white copier. If you have Photoshop, you can scan your collage and then change the mode to grayscale. Here’s one of my collages in both color and grayscale. Its easy to see that the darkest colors\u00a0are on the\u00a0underside of\u00a0the apple on the table, the lightest colors are on the pitcher, and that most of the collage colors are in the middle.<\/p>\n

Checking Value<\/strong><\/p>\n

Middle value\u00a0colors will not work as well for this project as a dark and a light value.\u00a0 Use your value sorter from Chapter Two to check the values of the clay you are thinking\u00a0about using. If you haven’t had a chance to make a value sorter, here’s an even more basic version of a value sorter\u00a0that will help you pick a dark and light clay.<\/p>\n

Materials : 1\/2 ounce of black clay, 1\/2 ounce of white clay, 3\/4″ square cutter, 1\/2″ circle cutter, clay colors from your collage\u00a0to test<\/p>\n

\"Value<\/a>1. Sheet the black and white at the middle setting on the pasta machine. Cut out one square of black and one square of white. Mix\u00a0the remaining\u00a0black and white clay together and sheet it at the middle setting\u00a0to make a backing sheet.\u00a0\u00a0Place the black and\u00a0white squares on the backing sheet and cut a circle out of the center of each square.\u00a0\u00a0Trim away the backing sheet. Bake according to the manufactures instructions.<\/p>\n

\"Value<\/a> 2.\u00a0 Sheet the clay you want to test at the thickest setting on your pasta machine. Cut out two circles and put them into the holes\u00a0of the baked sorter. Squint your eyes. Does the color pop out more against the black or the white? If it pops out more against the white – it is a dark value (blue). If it pops out more against the black – its a light value clay (yellow). If it pops out from both sides then its a middle value clay (green).\u00a0 To make the skinner blend\u00a0 for the project be sure to use a light and a dark clay – not\u00a0 middle value clays!<\/p>\n

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The Importance of Value<\/strong><\/p>\n

Value is sometimes referred to as “luminosity.” In her fascinating book,\u00a0Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing, <\/em> Margaret Livingston gets down to the cellular level to explain why value is so important in art. Livingston says, “Understanding luminance (value) is important because our perception of depth, three-dimensionality, movement or lack of it, and spatial organization are all carried by part of our visual system that responds only to luminance (value) differences and is insensitive to color.”<\/p>\n

What does that mean? In simple\u00a0terms: the\u00a0parts of the eye that\u00a0send information to the brain about value are different from the ones that send information about hue; and its this important\u00a0information about value that our brain uses to\u00a0percieve depth.\u00a0Variations in value add depth to your work.<\/p>\n

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Lindly<\/a> is a master at using value to enliven her pieces. Imagine the ruffle brooch made out of solid color clay –\u00a0boring!\u00a0If you don’t want to make a brooch, you can play with your dark and light Skinner cane in other ways. Here’s a close-up of some of Lindly’s beads. She used the same technique as the project in the book\u00a0 – \u00a0adding depth to the necklaces by simply playing with the value variation of each of the different hues.<\/p>\n

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              Middle Value Muddle To make the project in Chapter 3, Ruffle Spiral Brooch, we ask you to\u00a0pick a light value clay and a dark value clay\u00a0based on colors from your collage.\u00a0 If you are having trouble seeing the values, try\u00a0making a black and white copy of your collage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7055,"parent":1728,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1987","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1987\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}