VALUE PLAN WORKSHEET
A good Value Design holds up no matter what the size or subject of the painting. This experiment is not about shading objects with light and shadow. The drawings below offer practice in creating pleasing over-all patterns for a landscape with buildings and trees. Make scene (1) with a dark sky, midtone building & trees and a light foreground. Scene (2) could have a midtone sky, light buildings and trees, and a dark foreground. Scene (3), a light sky, dark buildings and trees, and a midtone foreground.
Choose the pattern that pleases you the most and use watercolor, crayons or colored pencils in appropriate hues and values to create a mini painting.
Try some more versions of this scene and vary the Values of each building, portions of a building, the trees, etc.; then choose the pattern that pleases you most and create a colored version as suggested above.
Time spent experimenting with a Value Pattern for each painting or drawing you plan to produce will assure you of a more successful work of art. A good way to check the value design pattern with a fresh eye is to view it sideways or upside down in a mirror.
