Exploring Light and Tone

Tone in the context of art is the light and dark or highlights and shadows values in a scenario that render a realistic object. Exploring light and tone is about the shadows cast from positioning lights or objects in different positions. Looking at this mood board, the artists and photographers are playing with the light and dark to create interesting compositions. They are abstract because they are photographing real things, in this case the paper but it doesn’t look like anything we naturally see.