OIL VALUE CHART
The Value Chart works better using "Canvas Paper". I searched several books in my library for ideas on how to proceed, among many the best is the sample shown in "Oil Painter's SOLUTION BOOK LANDSCAPES" by Elizabeth Tolley a North Light Publication, pages 92-93. I drew the chart on a blank sheet (pic.1) there are 7 rows and 11 columns with different hues on each, the very top row(small rectangles) contains pure color out of the tube. To make a master chart I cut out wells with a Xacto knife to create a stencil that can be used over and over to make other charts (pic.2) Then I beging the color mixing on a glass palette (pic.3) Then I mix a Mid value matching 18% grey card used in photography, row 5, then put White in one end and Black in the other end of the scale, and now comes the hard part, create a grey scale from 2 to 7 (column 12). Finally I mix color #1 with each of the other colors in 1:1 ratio and creat a new row #8, then I add white to each color to create a gradation from 7 down to 2. Before filling the well I compare it with the corresponding shade in the grey scale, and the result is shown on (pic. 4)
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This sample appears on page 53 of the book "Painting the IMPRESSIONIST LANDSCAPE, Lessons in Interpreting Light and Color" by Lois Griffel and Published by WATSON-GUPTILL PUBLICATIONS.
The chart shown in the book was done using Oil, I did mine in acrylic as illustrated below.
Sorry the picture did not come out very good but you'll get the idea. It has 22 rows and 8 columns.
I used all the colors in my possession. It is meant to be read in a vertical format so you have to use your imagination thinking vertically. Each row has a different pure color that coincides with the grey scale at the top and then adding white to create a gradation from column 8 to 2, but we'll use the scale from 2 to 7 only, as taught to us by Johannes Vloothuis.
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