Lesson #4 - Value

For this exercise, you will use 6 colors to create a design. This design should combine the 6 colors next to one another, leaving no white spaces in between them. Arrange it however you like, just make sure you have a solid design. Begin with the three primary colors, red, blue, yellow and then add the secondary colors, green, purple and orange. Try to keep all the values in the same range. Choose either light, medium light, medium or medium dark. Why can't you make them all dark? Hint: Use a photocopier to copy your design in gray scale... does the design disappear and become one, solid object?

Once you have completed this part, repeat your same design again, but this time, use what you have learned about value and saturation to create a design that creates a minimum of 4 distinct levels. You should use the prismatic (unmixed) colors and muted colors to create this effect.

here are my designs:

This grid attempts to create the same value for all colors.
See the desaturated grid to the right. Notice the yellows and blues have a slightly darker value.
Close but no cigar!



This grid is comprised of the primary and secondary colors only.
To the right is a desaturated analysis showing the values.





This grid is composed of each primary color pushed or pulled toward the extremes. Notice the different levels of value.