SCALE unites smaller shapes into large shapes by unifying the color
Adam Hirsch
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin
Chen Rong Nine Dragons 1244
Chen Rong Nine Dragons 1244
Victor Hugo
Richard Diebenkorn
translation of value
dark on top of light
light on top of dark
A ‘translation of value’ white against dark, and dark against light
Georges Seurat
Nicolas Poussin
Value studies are a means of simplifying, organizing, and expressing the essential massing of light and dark.
To appreciate abstraction it’s important to understand that this is really about structural contrasts and relationships, not things.
Using a limited number of tones is a way to sift out the clutter of small details to get to the poetry of the big abstract tonal structure – the real bones of the subject.
Guercino
Caravaggio
Victor Hugo
Translation of value - light against dark, and dark against light.
Mo Seder
Illuminated Manuscripts
The word manuscript is derived from the Latin words manus (hand) and scriptus, from scribere (to write).
Illuminated, from the Latin illuminare (to light up), denotes the glow created by the radiant colors of the illustrations, as well as by real gold and silver.
Positive and Negative Shape creates rhythm
Repetition creates rhythm
Scale creates impact
Diagonals keep the eye moving all over the picture