1. Elements of Design
Accordion book

2. The Elements of Design are the ingredients, or building blocks, of an artwork.

3. How to Assemble Your Accordion Book:
1) Measure and mark every 3 inches on both the top and bottom of your paper strip.
2) Draw a line that connects each of your marks. Press down hard to create a crease.
3) Fold your paper at every drawn line, going back and forth after each fold.
4) Trace and cut out a front and back cover for your accordion book.
5) Glue these ends to the front and last pages.

4. What is Line? A line is the path of a point in motion.
As an art element, line pertains to the use of various marks, outlines and implied lines in artwork.

5. The “Direction” of Line
Horizontal Line:
“Stability”
Puts our mind at ease; creates a calming effect
VERTICAL LINE:
“INTERRUPTION”
COMMANDS OUR ATTENTION; HAS AUTHORITY

6. The most unstable & dynamic
Diagonal Line
The most unstable & dynamic
“Motion”
Can give the illusion of falling

7. Line in Motion
Winding, curving strips of metal painted in bright, dynamic colors forcefully carry the motion and excitement of professional racing.
Jarama II, 1982
Frank Stella

8. There are many vertical and horizontal lines, making the tone of this American painting very solid, serious, organized, and planned
Classic Landscape, 1931
Charles Sheeler

9. Making this artwork feel busy, topsy-turvy, and active
We see:
short, broken lines
curvy lines
zigzag lines
Making this artwork feel busy, topsy-turvy, and active
The Farm, 1921
Joan Miro

10. Your Line Definition Page
On the front:
Design the word LINE using your knowledge of different types of line.
Your design must include at least 4 different types of line.
There may not be any white spaces left.
On the back:
Copy the definition page at your table.
Use either colored pencil or a pen.

12. Shape Shape is a flat area surrounded by edges or an outline
In Miro’s artwork, shapes & figures from his imagination were alongside simplified, recognizable forms
Nocturne, Joan Miró

13. Geometric Shapes
Geometric shapes are precise and regular (like squares, triangles, circles)
They are often found in human-made things, like building and machines
Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue,
Piet Mondrian
The Three Musicians, Picasso

14. Organic Shapes Organic, or Irregular, shapes are found in nature
These may look like leaves, flowers, clouds—things that grow, flow, and move.
The Sea Battle, Henri Matisse

15. Form A Form is a Shape in three dimensions Circle —> Sphere
Square —> Cube
Rectangle —> Rectangular prism
Triangle —> Pyramid

16. Geometric Forms
Roy Lichtenstein House I, 1998 fabricated and painted aluminum
Still life, Paul Cezanne

17. Vertical Constellation with Bomb, 1943
Irregular Forms
Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881–1973 Head of a Woman (Fernande)
Vertical Constellation with Bomb, 1943
Alexander Calder

18. Shape & Form Definition Page
On the Front:
Design the words SHAPE and FORM using your prior knowledge of shapes and forms.
Include at least 4 shapes and 4 forms.
There can not be any white spaces left.
On the Back:
Copy the definition page found at your table.

20. Color Color is what we see because of reflected light.
Light contains different wavelengths of energy that our eyes and brain "see" as different colors.
When light hits an object, we see the colored light that reflects off the object

21. Color Harmony
Color Harmonies are groups of colors that are pleasant together, such as:
Warm
Cool
Complementary
Analogous

22. Claude Monet painted the changing effects of light on a cathedral dozens of times.

23. Claude Monet
- Each painting records time and weather - It is not possible to determine exactly where one surface ends and another begins. - Line does not define the forms in these paintings, Color does!

24. This work has a sense of serenity and radiance.
Matisse used heightened color to express a strong emotional response to nature.
This work has a sense of serenity and radiance.
Open Window, Collioure
Henri Matisse

25. As an artist, he drew connections between art and music and believed that colors and shapes could affect our mood.

26. Color Definition Page On the Front: Design the word COLOR.
Include ANY of the following:
1 Color Harmony (warm, cool, complementary, analogous)
ROY G. BIV (rainbow)
A Color Wheel
There can not be any white spaces left.
On the Back:
Copy the definition page found at your table.

28. VALUE refers to how light or dark something is.

29. Value Scale
A scale that shows the gradual change in value from its lightest value (white) to its darkest value (black).

30. Which one has a greater Range of Value (lights, mediums, and darks)?
Which picture uses Value to give Emphasis (importance) in the picture?
Sky Cathedral, Louise Nevelson 1958
The Newborn, Georges de La Tour 1648

31. Review Value can create Emphasis in a part of a picture.
A wide Range of Values creates Contrast.
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Rembrandt

32. What else can Value do?
Value can create the feeling or illusion of Form.

33. Color Values
TINT - the addition of white to a HUE (color) which creates lighter values such as light blue (blue + white) or pink (red + white).
SHADE - the addition of black to a HUE which creates dark values such as dark blue or dark red.

34. Value Definition Page On the Front: Design the word VALUE.
Create a value scale/study somewhere in your design.
There can not be any white spaces left.
On the Back:
Copy the definition page found at your table.

35. After you are done with today’s Element, on the inside cover, write the definition of the Elements of Design:
“The Elements of Design are the ingredients, or the building blocks, of an artwork.”
Design and decorate your back cover. This can be anything you’d like, but it should include YOUR NAME.
Finish any pages you have not yet completed, including the definitions. Tomorrow you will receive a final grade for your book in class.

37. TEXTURE Texture refers to the surface quality in a work of art.
We associate textures with the way that things look or feel.
Everything has some type of texture

38. Real Texture
Some things feel just as they appear.

39. Implied Texture
Texture that is created to look like something it is not.

40. He divided his canvas into a grid, and then, square by square, pressed the marks of his fingers to the canvas to make this portrait of Fanny.
Carefully layering his fingerprints onto the canvas, he built up the lines of her face and neck.
Chuck Close American, born 1940 Fanny/Fingerpainting, 1985

41. Sleek, shiny leaves
Martin Johnson Heade American, 1819– Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth

42. Fur, wood grain, water
George Stubbs British, 1724– White Poodle in a Punt, c. 1780

43. Texture Definition Page
On the Front:
Design the word TEXTURE.
Create a design using at least 4 different textures.
There can not be any white spaces left.
On the Back:
Copy the definition page found at your table.

44. After you are done with today’s Element, on the inside cover, write the definition of the Elements of Design:
“The Elements of Design are the ingredients, or the building blocks, of an artwork.”
Design and decorate your back cover. This can be anything you’d like, but it should include YOUR NAME.
Finish any pages you have not yet completed, including the definitions. Tomorrow you will receive a final grade for your book in class.

45. Space Space is the area around, above, below and within an object.
In art, the element of space includes positive and negative space as well as two-dimensional and three-dimensional space.

46. Positive & Negative Space
Creating art involves an interplay between positive space, the object, and negative space, the background.
The tree is the positive space.
The area around the tree is the negative space.

47. Reversal of Positive & Negative Space

49. Illusion of Space
We can create the illusion of depth and distance by manipulating design elements, such as in a 1-pt perspective drawing or painting.

50. Basic 1-point Perspective
Overlap
Shading / Value
Size – objects recede, or get smaller, as they move towards the background
Form – objects have volume

51. Space Definition Page On the Front: Design the word SPACE.
Create a design using positive & negative space, OR one-point perspective.
There can not be any white spaces left.
On the Back:
Copy the definition page found at your table.