What are close value colours? How could I use them to improve my art?

Question

I use a pure colour acrylic pallet to create canvas paintings. I want my paintings to have an extra stylistic edge. Can anyone tell me anything about close value colour systems?

Answer 1

Values are the shades of a colour . If you photo your painting in black and white you will see only the values or darks and lights .This is enormously helpful as you can really see your composition . ( Films shot in black and white are much easier to see than a coloured film you happen to see in band w as the director has taken trouble to get the values or shades in an interesting arrangement .
So now you understand this you will find yourself wanting to make the girl you are painting stand out from the background so where her pale dress meets a pale rug in the background you will want to change the rug but this is where the fun comes in and you must be careful you don't make a card board girl . To make her sit in her space you must make the edge loose itself in the background and then be found again later as the rug gives way to the dark floor boards and so on and this gives the feeling that the dress has a life of its own and carries on around the girl where you cannot see it .
Look at all the great portraits and you will see this particularly on the cheek that is away from you .

Answer 2

Close value colours are colours around your pure or basic colours. Say oyu are using marine blue colour for water in a sea. If it is flat blue that would not be impressive, so you can mix blue and green to get a bluish green colour with which you can make shades on the water to make it more natural.

You can open any Paint software in computer and play with the colour palette there. You will find RGB colours and RED GREEN BLUE all have 255 as the highest value. Change the values at random and you will get enormous shades of colour, this will improve your sense of mixing colours to get new colours. Happy Painting.

Answer 3

what is the value of any given colour alone or in conjunction to another colour, this is what the value system is.
forget it.
if you want style either do like most artist struggling to find thier style adapt one that is in use, add your definition to it, an example would be the fauvist movement. bold bright colours from an age where conservitism was the norm. or look at the work of chris ophelia, the return of captain ****, where he took black iconagraphic art up a level. regards LF

Answer 4

Value is how light or dark a shade is.
More value adds many elements to a painting; depth, texture, size, emotion, balance, etc...

What's really helpful is to get a book about value and how to work with them. They have illustrations with examples on them, and that's very helpful when in doubt.