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Adding Color Value - Watercolor

The document discusses adding color value through techniques like using a color wheel, tinting, and shading with watercolors. It defines value as the lightness or darkness of a color. The document instructs the reader to go outside and draw a landscape that represents something they value using charcoal on watercolor paper. It then guides adding watercolor paints to blend colors and create values after fixing the charcoal drawing. A supplies list is also provided. The summary is in 3 sentences.

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Adding Color Value - Watercolor

The document discusses adding color value through techniques like using a color wheel, tinting, and shading with watercolors. It defines value as the lightness or darkness of a color. The document instructs the reader to go outside and draw a landscape that represents something they value using charcoal on watercolor paper. It then guides adding watercolor paints to blend colors and create values after fixing the charcoal drawing. A supplies list is also provided. The summary is in 3 sentences.

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Adding Color Value

Starting with Color Wheel...


Example of Color Wheel
in Watercolor:

Color Scale: Tinting and Shading with Watercolor

What is color
value?
Value refers to
the lightness or
darkness of a
color; tinting
and shading
with color
Watercolor value

Charcoal combined with


Watercolor value

What is value? What do you value?


1. Go outside and find a place to draw a landscape
2. Make sure when you pick the landscape that you it might value, or
resemble something you value. *Ask yourself, What does value mean
to me? What do I value?
3. Using values with charcoal to draw on watercolor paper of your choice
landscape of something you value.
4. After finishing the drawing, spray fixative spray over the charcoal;
lightly spray 2 times, takes few minutes between coats
5. Go back inside to add color
6. Adding watercolor paint to blend to make color values.
7. When finished, let it dry.

Supplies List:
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Charcoal, fine, compressed, made


Erasers; pink, white, kneaded
Fixative
Watercolor paints; assortment of colors
Watercolor Paper
Brushes
Water Containers

Watercolor before Charcoal

Charcoal before Watercolor

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