Portfolio Elements of Design The building blocks or the ingredients of the visual arts

Line Is a continuous mark. The artist Paul Klee said “ Line was a dot taking a walk.”

Line A moving mark Vertical lines Horiztal lines Curve lines Thin lines Broad lines Spiral lines

LINE IMAGES

LINE IMAGES

Value Is the lightness and darkness of a color or neutral gray.

Value Light source Shadows

Value scale

Shape 2D Flat art work (height and width) Organic Geometric Made by nature Leave, tree, human body Geometric Made by man Circle, square, triangle

Organic shapes

Geometric shapes

Space -space around the object Positive space -Object itself Negative space -space around the object -And this could be the space in an object as well

Examples of pos. and neg. space

Space Position of object or shape higher on the page to make it seem further away. Overlapping is placing one shape on top of another to produce a feeling of depth. Size variation combines similar objects of different sizes. The smaller objects will seem further away than the larger ones. Color to create a sense of depth.

Space Linear perspective method of depicting 3D space on a 2D surface. One point perspective straight lines are parallel , they seem to move away from viewer and meet at a point in the distance. Two point perspective uses parallel lines that seem to lead to two different vanishing points set far apart.

1 point perspective

2 point perspective

Texture Real texture Rough Fake or implied texture Smooth

Form 3D Free Standing Sculpture Height Width Depth

Color Primary (red, yellow and blue) Secondary (orange, green and purple) Intermediate ( 1primary + 1 secondary) Yellow green, red purple, blue green

Nuetrals Black is a shade White is a tint

Color theory Cool colors (purple, blue and green) Warm colors (red, yellow and orange) Monochromatic (one color with a tint/shade) Analogous (4 color next to each other on the color wheel) Complimentary (2 colors across from each other on the color wheel) Triadic ( 3 colors in a triangle shape)