Is how you make the eye move through the picture, how you lead the viewer from point to point.
One of the ways you do that is through GRADATION, which is a gradual change either in shape, value, size, or color, line, direction, the elements of composition. It is a step by step series of gradual changes and the opposite of contrast. It adds interest and movement to the painting.
Gradation in color is like a sunset or rainbow, where one color gradually blends into another.
Mr. Mahi
gradation of color
Gradation in shape is where the shape gradually changes. Think of M.C. Escher's tessellations.
M.C. Escher
gradation of shape, value, and texture
Gradation in size is taking similar shapes and gradually changing the size to lead the eye in one direction or another.
gradation of size and value
In line, gradation is seen in perspective drawings. You can even have gradation in texture, in which the texture gradually changes in the picture.
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