1. The Odyssey By Homer
Visual Art Lessons

2. Visual tools the artist uses…
Elements of Design
Visual tools the artist uses…
Space Line Shape Form Color Value Texture

3. Space or art forms used in creating works of art?
Is the area on which the artist works.
What are some types of spaces
or art forms used in creating works of art?
Space has two characteristics:
positive…the object
negative…the voided area surrounding the object.

4. SHAPE Two-dimensional area made by connecting lines
The contour of an object
Shapes may stand out also by a difference of value, color, or texture.

5. COLOR
The character of a surface created by the response of vision to light reflections.
It identifies objects, creates moods, and affects emotions (warm, cool, primary, secondary, complementary, and so on).

6. TEXTURE The roughness or smoothness of the surface of a piece of art.
Texture can be tactile (sandpaper) or illusion (looks soft but is not).

7. Line refers to the path of a moving point at the edge of a flat shape or outline of a solid object
It is longer than it is wide.
Types of lines are straight, curvy, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, zigzag, implied, and angular.
Direction pertains to the movement that a line may have or seem to indicate.
LINE

8. FORM The three dimensional projection of a shape
It has volume, dimension, appears to have mass
Frequently used in sculpture
May also refer to the overall organization of the work of art

9. VALUE The appearance of lights and darks found in a work of art.
These range from black to white with numerous shades of gray in between.

10. Giorgio Morandi The Blue Vase oil on canvas, 1920
What is the space used?
What shapes and forms stand out?
What mood do the colors and textures create?
What do the blue lines point out? To what do your eyes attend?
What do the gray values create?
Giorgio Morandi The Blue Vase oil on canvas, 1920

11. What shapes and forms stand out?
What is the space used?
What shapes and forms stand out?
What mood do the colors and textures create?
What types of obvious and implied lines do you notice? What is their effect?
What do the white-gray-black values create?
This collage, Women’s Odyssey, was created by the Women of The Odyssey Group at the 2010 workshop.

12. Kenneth Noland, Thrust oil on canvas, 1963
What is the space used?
What shapes and forms stand out?
What mood do the colors and textures create?
What do the angled lines point out? To what do your eyes attend?
What do the black to white values create?
Kenneth Noland, Thrust oil on canvas, 1963

13. What shapes and forms stand out?
What is the space used?
What shapes and forms stand out?
What mood do the colors and textures create?
What do the implied lines point out? To what do your eyes attend?
What do the black to white values help create?
Tim Cotterill, Frogman
bronze sculpture

14. Hokusai, Katsushika The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Color woodcut
What is the space used?
What shapes and forms stand out?
What mood do the colors and textures create?
What do the curved lines point out? To what do your eyes attend?
What do the white-gray-black values help to create?
Hokusai, Katsushika The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Color woodcut

15. What shapes and forms stand out?
What is the space used?
What shapes and forms stand out?
What mood do the colors and textures create?
What do the curved lines point out? To what do your eyes attend?
What do the white-gray-black values help to create?
Cute Couple by Chidi Okoye giclee
watercolor on paper

16. Space, lines, shapes, colors, and textures can be interpreted as having expressive qualities that create moods.
Thick or thin lines, hard-edged or soft shapes, light or dark colors, delicate or heavy shading, curved or straight lines, rough or smooth textures—take your pick!
What emotions (mood) and meanings (purpose) are created by the use of art elements all together in this illustration of Circe?

17. TEXTURE
FORM
LINE
SHAPE
SPACE
COLOR
VALUE

18. MOOD color line type shape texture
PRACTICE
If I asked you to create art for each mood below, what color, line, shape, and texture would you choose?
MOOD
color
line type
shape
texture
frightened
happy
furious
sad

19. Tomorrow’s Task
You will use visual art to show understanding of the significance of setting and character for Books 1-8 of The Odyssey.
You will use various art supplies to depict the setting and a character developed in the first eight books of the story. You may choose to create a sculpture, painting, collage, abstract work, etc.
Brainstorm ideas for the following:
The settings and characters from the beginning of the epic that you will represent
The art space (form) you will use
The materials
The impact you want (purpose and mood)
Types of lines you will include
Textures, colors, shapes, and values