design elements. quick overview the elements of art are the building blocks of art/design creation....
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Design Elements
Quick Overview
• The elements of art are the building blocks of art/design creation.
• They are the VISUAL LANGUAGE of art. • What are they?
– Line– Shape– Color– Space– Value– texture
Line
• Lines can communicate an idea or express a feeling. • They can appear static or active. • Lines define objects. • Look at the following example
Ben Shahn (Lithuanian) 1889-1968, Supermarket, serigraph in black,1957, 25 1/4 x 38 3/4"
Line exercise• In your sketchbooks, divide one page into 12
small sections (4 rows of 3) and demonstrate the following (and label):
•Active
•Broken
•Furious
•Climbing
•Dancing
•Falling
•Bouncing
•Growing
•Random
•Echoing
•Spiraling
•One of your choice
Shapes
• Lines come together to make shapes• Categorized as
– Geometric• Circle
• Square
• Triangle
– Freeform
Piet Mondrian, (Dutch) 1872-1944, Boogie-Woogie, 1942-43. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50" (127 x 127 cm) . The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Joan Miro (Spanish) 1893-1983, The Policeman, Oil on canvas,1925, 248 x 194.9 cm, The Art Institute Of Chicago
Shape exercise
• Complete Black Square Problem
• Place in sketchbook when completed
Space
• How an artists uses Space or chooses NOT to use Space adds a great deal to a design
• Space is so important, that we have names for the types of Space in a design– Positive Space
• The space created by an image or a sculpture.• The main subjects of the work/design.
– Negative Space • The space around, between and behind parts of
an image or a sculpture
Salvador Dali (Spanish) 1904-1989, The Deterioration of The Persistence Of Memory1952-54, Oil on Board, Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
How is space used?
Ben Shahn (American) 1898-1969
Salvador Dali (Spanish) 1904-1989, The Deterioration of The Persistence Of Memory1952-54, Oil on Board, Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Space and Perspective
• Artist used rules or perspective to create a sense of three-dimensional space while designing on a flat, two-dimensional surface.
• Why are your eyes drawn to the sides of the paper. Do you know why?
• A diagonal line is read by the human eye as a movement line. The eye is drawn up the diagonal direction and "into" the drawing.
Your Task
• Complete Black & White problem– Choose 3 of the following items to sketch only
using the NEGATIVE space– Salt, ghost, clouds, Moby Dick, Jaws, sugar, polar
bear, smoke, vanilla ice cream cone, or steam
• Place in sketchbook when completed
Review
• What types of lines communicate these feelings?– Anger– Happy – Movement
Texture
• Visual texture is the illusion of a three-dimensional surface
• The goal is to imitate the look and feel of real texture in designs
• Texture can be– Physical– Visual – Which will we deal with?
Texture
• What are some texture descriptors?– Smooth– Rough– Soft
• How can we use texture?
Value
• Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color• Very useful when attempting to create a sense of
three dimensions• Typically thought of as a range from black to white,
but it can also be used with color– The range of the values can be changed by adding white to
lighten or tint a color. Adding black will create a shade of the original color which will appear darker.
Value
• In your sketchbook, create the following– 3 rows of 5 squares each– Be neat!– Label
• Value scale gray
• Value scale (your choice)
• Value scale (your choice 2)
– Left side = very dark; right side = very light
The Third Dimension
• Review– Perspectives– Sketching 3D shapes
• Cube
• Parallelepiped
• Cone
• Pyramid
• Sphere
The Third Dimension
• How can you simulate 3D?
•Placement•Size•Overlapping•Shading•Shadows
•Contour lines•Horizon•Density•Foreshortening