1. The building blocks used by artists to create a work of art.
THE ELEMENTS OF ART
The building blocks used by artists to create a work of art.

2. LINE is a path that a point takes through space
LINE is a path that a point takes through space. Lines can be thick, thin, dotted, or soild. They may make straight movements, zigzags, waves or curls.
Lines may convey emotions. They may show excitement, anger, calmness, tension, happiness or many other feelings.

3. Horizontal lines suggest a calmness when used in a composition
Horizontal lines suggest a calmness when used in a composition. An example would be a horizon line where the sky meets the ocean.

4. Charles Avery

5. Carne Griffiths

7. SHAPE is an enclosed space that is 2 dimensional.
GEOMETRIC SHAPES
ORGANIC SHAPES

8. We can learn to see the world around us as shapes.
Recognizing the shapes that we see will improve drawing and painting.

10. Joan Miro

11. Picasso

12. FORM is an enclosed space that is 3 dimensional.

14. The illusion of space can be created through value or perspective.
SPACE is the distance or area between, around, above, below or within things.
The illusion of space can be created through value or perspective.

15. POSITIVE SPACE: the object
NEGATIVE SPACE: space around objects

17. VALUE the lightness or darkness of a colour.
MC Escher

19. DaVInci

20. TEXTURE the surface quality or feel of an object.
Tactile Texture (REAL): the way the surface actually feels vs vs
Implied Texture:
the way the surface looks like it feels

22. COLOUR 3 properties of colour: HUE: another word for colour ITENSITY:
the strength of a colour (tones – adding complementary colour of gray to a hue)
VALUE:
the lightness or darkness of a colour (tints and shades)

23. Hue
Value

24. Intensity Scale
Mixing Complementary Colours