Elements of Art

Elements of Art

Line Color Shape Texture Space Value Form

* Click on the jewels above to learn about these elements *

Every drawing, painting, and sculpture uses the
7 Elements of Art

The way the elements of art are used is called
the Principles of Art.
We'll talk about those later.

Line

~ There are so many different kinds of lines ~

And so many tools to make the different lines

Here are 2 good examples of a variety of lines.

Wassily Kandinsky	M.C. Escher's "Hands"

~ COLOR
Primary Colors Secondary Colors
All colors in the world start from the 3 primary colors.

You can mix any color you want using combinations of

blue, yellow, red, black and white !

If you mix all 3 primarycolors, you get

brown !

	That's pretty simple too !

Claude Monet; "Waterlilies"	Franz Marc; "Blue Horse"

SHAPE

	GEOMETRIC SHAPES			*ORGANIC* *SHAPES*
	6

	D

	Paul Cezanne; "Still Life" This is a good example of use of shape.
Pablo Picasso; "Violin"
This is also a good example of use of shape.

TEXTURE

Texture is all about the way things feel to the touch.

Tree bark	Kinds of Texture	Silky
Fuzzy	Rough	Smooth
Jagged	Sandy	Soft
Ridged	Shiny	Stony

Texture can be Real (actually feel like it looks)
or Implied (painted to look like a certain texture)

Franz Marc;
"Cat on a Yellow Pillow"

~ good example of fuzzy and
soft texture ~

Ralph Goings; "Still Life"
~ an excellent example of shiny texture ~

SPACE
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE Near space and far space

M.C. Escher; 2 Tessellations showing a design
in the positive space and the negative space.

Salvador Dali; "Girl at Window"

VALUE
Value is pretty simple.
It means darks and lights of the same color.


Examples of Value:


dark and light values of green	dark and light values of purple


dark and light values of gray	dark and light values of red

dark and light values of blue

How to mix lighter values:

RED plus WHITE = TINT
GREEN plus WHITE = TINT
BLUE plus WHITE = TINT
BLACK plus WHITE = TINT

How to mix darker values:

RED plus BLACK = SHADE
GREEN plus BLACK = SHADE
BLUE plus BLACK = SHADE
VIOLET plus BLACK = SHADE