Year 7 - Art and design
The elements of art: tone
The elements of art
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Unit Summary
Pupils will develop an understanding of the basic elements of art and learn how artists use these elements in different ways in their work. In the unit, pupils will answer questions as they look at the elements through a variety of processes to identify how they are used in different art forms.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to identify different types of tone and add tone in your drawings.
Key Notes
- Tone indicates how light or dark something is
- Tone can be organised into groups of lights, mid tones, darks
- Tone is used to create form
Vocabulary To Learn
- shadow: the area of darkness where the object or figure rests on a surface
- highlight: a bright or reflective area in a painting, picture, or design
- shading: a technique used to depict different levels of light and dark in an image
- cross hatching: a technique for shading and adding tone with intersecting sets of parallel lines
- tone: how light or dark something is
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Tone is all about smooth blending
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Tone indicates how light or dark something is. Tone can be organised into groups of lights, mid tones, darks.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'shadow'
the area of darkness where the object or figure rests on a surface.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Tone is all about smooth blending. Correction: Tone can be captured in a variety of ways and mediums.
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