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Wednesday 19 November 2014

Tone and value - on paper and cloth

I started a new job last week, hence the gap in blogging.  All well, but everyone in the household is adjusting to a revised routine.  

The Morley class this week was about tone, and capturing a likeness of an individual using only tone.  I really understood this, mostly as the tutor was very helpful and started us off with very pixellated black and white photograph, so no 3 dimensional issues to contend with.

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( The sketch in the upper right corner was me trying to capture the design lines on a dress that one of my classmates was wearing).  

As this was charcoal, I tried to protect it on the way home and got another faint, inverted impression of the same photograph.

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This was a useful lesson as it also showed me where I had not included enough contrast of tone in a couple of blocks made for the round robin challenge this month.

Not enough  contrast of tone

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Better

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Best

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4 comments:

  1. I love the ghostly impression of the charcoal left on your page, its a bit like looking at the back of an embroidery. The view you aren't supposed to see.

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  2. Looking good! I think im the other end of the consequences rota- don't think I'll see the same One's!

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  3. What an interesting exercise - love the idea of starting from a pixillated image! Love your B&W photos too.....

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  4. As they say, "Tone does the work and colour gets the credit" - !

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