1. Basic components or building blocks
Elements of Art
Basic components or building blocks

2. Tender Loving Care For Someone Very Special
Texture
Line
Color
Form
Shape
Value
Space

3. The way something feels or appears to feel.
TEXTURE
The way something feels or appears to feel.
Consider: The roughest texture surrounding us and the smoothest texture surrounding us.

4. How many textures do you see?

5. LINE
A continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point that is either curved or straight; used to control our vision and to create unity, emotional value, and meaning.
Horizontal (side to side) – calm, relaxed, tranquil
Vertical (up and down) – strength, dignity
Diagonal (corner to corner) – anxious, excitement, confused

6. COLOR Has 3 qualities: hue, intensity, value Hue: name of a color
Intensity: brightness or purity (add compliment)
Value: lightness or darkness (add black or white)

7. red/green, purple/yellow, orange/blue
Color Groups
Primary – must have these 3 to create any other color
Red, Yellow, Blue
Secondary – mix primary to create secondary
Green, Orange, Purple:
Complementary – colors opposite on color wheel
red/green, purple/yellow, orange/blue

8. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple
Analogous Colors – colors side by side on the color wheel
Tertiary Colors – mixing a primary color and a secondary color (ex: red-orange, yellow-green, blue-violet)
Color Spectrum – ROYGBIV
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple
Warm –Red, Orange, Yellow
Cool – Green, Blue, Purple

10. Is three dimensional or appears to be 3D.
FORM
Has mass and volume.
Is three dimensional or appears to be 3D.
Value turns 2D into 3D

11. SHAPE
A space set off by one or more of the other elements – usually the space is described by line.
Shape is flat, 2D

12. VALUE Gradual change from light to dark.
Makes objects appear round, solid, and more real.
“Shading”
Takes 2D to 3D
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13. SPACE
The distance or area around, between, within, under, above something.
ways to create space 2D------
Size: Distant shapes are smaller, closer shapes larger
Placement: overlap, some shapes are in front of others, and objects in front are toward bottom of picture plane
Detail: Distant shapes have less detail
Color: Distant shapes have dull hues
Line: horizontal lines of buildings and other objects are slanted to make them appear to extend back into space