Fruit Still Life Using Value

The depiction of food in art spans across cultures and all of recorded human history. A recurring theme through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to modern time, the subject of fruit has served as a celebration of a theme, composition itself or even a metaphor. Forms of Shadow and Light Artists refer to six basic concepts when describing the behavior of light on a form, listed here in order of brightness: highlight, direct light, reflected light, shadow, core shadow and cast shadow.