1. Reading Pictures 2 Elements of Design

2. Visual literacy = ability to describe picture books in terms of elements of design

3. Elements of Design colour light line shape texture layout media style

4. Colour and light suggest emotion strength transparent or opaque high or low contrast

5. Colour and light suggest emotion tone strong or soft warm or cold bright or dark

6. Colour and light suggest emotion

7. range full limited

8. Line suggests direction, motion, energy, or mood vertical, diagonal horizontal

9. Line suggests direction, motion, energy, or mood straight curved

10. Line suggests direction, motion, energy, or mood thick or thin static or fluid

11. Shape emphasizes mood organic or geometric balanced or unbalanced realistic or distorted

12. Texture suggests depth and appeals to the sense of touch Rough Smooth

13. Page design and layout affects how illustrations are experienced size of page shape of page placement and arrangement of text use of frames or borders

14. Page design and layout affects how illustrations are experienced page spreads-- double or single page turns typeface

15. Media refers to materials used to create illustrations paint chalk or pastel woodcuts collage pencil photographs mixed media

16. Media refers to materials used to create illustrations: (coloured) pencil

17. Media refers to materials used to create illustrations: watercolour paint

18. Media refers to materials used to make illustrations: oil paint

19. Media refers to materials used to make illustrations: mixed media (pencil, coloured pencil, coloured ink, watercolour)

20. Media refers to materials used to create illustrations: pastels

21. Media refers to materials used to create illustrations: fabric

22. Media refers to materials used to make illustrations: collage and cut paper

23. Media refers to materials used to make illustrations: woodcuts

24. Style refers to total effect of elements of design Realistic Impressionistic Expressionistic Surrealistic Comic Primitive

25. Realistic art accurately reflects the external world

26. Primitive art appears raw, untutored, naive

27. Expressionistic art distorts colour and form to convey inner experience

28. Comic art (or cartoon) provides a humorously simplified view of life

29. Impressionism uses colour, shadow, and light to convey life in a glimpse

30. Surrealistic art uses images and symbols to depict subconscious mind

31. Surrealistic art uses images and symbols to escape the rational world

32. Problem for Discussion “After several generations of elevating our expectations of children’s literature, a growing chorus of voices seems to be calling instead for its degradation, for what might be crankily described as its ‘dumbing down,’ … by decreeing that the kind of artistry we used to look for is suddenly too arcane to be apprehended by young readers of the MTV generation. And therefore, instead of being a hallmark of excellence, art is now considered an impediment to readers’ appreciation” Michael Cart, School Library Journal (1993)