in this lesson you will learn about the elements of visual art line shape/form space texture value...

In this lesson you will learn about the

Elements of Visual Art

Line Shape/Form

Space Texture

Value Color

Fold both of your papers into

4 even sections

Write at the top of each section:

Your Name

Block

Elements of Art:

Line Shape/Form Space

Texture Value Color

NAME

In this lesson you will learn about the

Elements of Art

= the basic visual tools artists use when making an artwork.

They are color, line, shape, form, texture, and space

Line= A mark with length and direction, a mark made by a moving point

• Can be real or implied.• Can be long or short.• Can be solid or broken.• Can be thicker or thinner.• Can be straight, wavy, zig-zag, bumpy, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved, bent, or spiral.

Abstract Melodyby Gregorz Chojnacki

Look for examples of Line

Create a design in the Line section

Line Shape Space

Texture Value Color

•a design that is interesting.•Fills the section •Uses line in at least 4 different ways.

Texture= the feel of the actual surface

•Appearance of roughness or smoothness of an object.

•Can be created using lines, shapes, and values.

Three Musiciansby Pablo Picasso

Look for examples of texture

Young Hareby

Albrecht Durer

Little Owlby Albrecht

Durer Look for examples of texture

Create a design in the Texture section

Line Shape Space

Texture Value Color

•A design that is interesting.•Fills the section •Uses texture in at least 4 different ways.

Shape/Form•An enclosed space or area; shapes are 2D.

•Implied by an area of color

•Can be geometric or organic

•Forms are 3D.

Drawing

Geometric

Shapes and Forms Forms

The Codomasby Henri Matisse

Look for examples of shape

In the Shape section draw 3 geometric shapes, 3

organic shapes, and 1 3D form

Line Shape Space

Texture Value Color

•A design that is interesting.•Fills the section •Uses Shape in at least 4 different ways.

Value•Lightness or darkness

•TINTS, made by adding white

•SHADES, made by adding black

Hatching

Cross-hatching

Stippling

Blue Lightby Paul KleeValues?

Draw a value scale (light to dark) in the Value

sectionLine Shape Space

Texture Value Color

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Space• Distance between lines and shapes, or the illusion of depth

• Shown by:– Converging lines– Overlapping shapes– Changing brightness of color– Position on the page– Decreasing size (foreshortening)– Use of shading and shadows

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Schweres Rotby Wassily Kandinsky

Converging linesPosition on the pageOverlapping shapesDecreasing size

Two Kinds of Space• Positive Space: The space that an image or

object fills (the yellow cup)

• Negative Space: the space around and between the image or object

• (the blue background)

What’s positive

and what’s

negative space??

Where’s the foreground?

Where’s the background?

In the Space section

Line Shape Space

Texture Value Color

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Color

Produced when light strikes an object and

reflects back to the eyes

Color Has 3 properties:

1. Hue - the name of the color

•Red, Yellow, & Blue are Primary Hues

•Orange, Violet , Green are Secondary Hues

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Primary Colors

Secondary Colors

Color Has 3 properties:

1. Hue - the name of the color–Complementary refers to opposite hues, i.e. red and green

–Analogous refers to related hues, i.e. red and red-orange

–Monochromatic refers to shades of the same hue, i.e. bright green and light green

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Colors that are next to each other are related

Related colors are

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Color Has 3 properties:

2. Value -lightness (color + white)

darkness (color + black)

3. Intensity - brightness (pure color)

dullness (color + it’s opposite)

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Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellowby

Piet Mondrian

Primary Colors

Green, Blue, Greenby

Mark Rothko

Analogous Colors

Hyena Stompby

Frank Stella

Complementary Colors

Blue & Orange

Violet & Yellow

Red & Green

Waterlilies by Claude Monet

Create a color wheel in the Color section

(red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)

Line Shape Space

Texture Value Color

•A design that is interesting.•Fills the section •Uses Color in at least 4 different ways.

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Turn this into the grading bin for a quiz grade!!

• Make sure it is COMPLETE

• With your NAME & BLOCK

• When you get it back next clas:

GLUE it into your SKETCHBOOK