Concept-Value & Transparency
Project 5
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Value-is an achromatic term that is defined along a continuum from white to black. This term is also used to describe light and dark color, not the intensity of the hue. Theoretically, the range of gray tones along the white-to-black continuum is infinite, each value depends on the varying amounts of white and black mixed together. Value can be used to communicate depth and distance visual texture and pattern, as well as to define edges and shapes of figures and forms. Value creates contrast between an object and its back ground or other figures or forms within the visual field. This contrast between light and dark communicates which forms are in front of others in the visual field and how far apart the forms are positioned.
Transparency-can be used to indicate depth when compositional figures overlap one another. In transparent forms, viewers see overlapping areas of the shape at the same time as a whole form. This is because transparency is the property of a figure that allows the viewer to see other shapes of forms through it. the concept is similar to seeing through a glass or plastic object, but it represented on the picture plane
Homework:Transparency Reading and Exercise 1 & 2
Read: value_transparency.pdf
Transparency Exercise #1
transparency
exercise.pdf
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Transparency Exercise #2
value_diminished_scale.pdf.
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