1. The Elements of Design The Design Elements are the 7 basic building blocks of visual art. You can’t make art without using at least one.

2. Line Shape ColorColor Texture Value Space The Elements of Design Form

3. 1. Line Def: A symbolic mark made to represent the separation of two areas in space.

4. A. Contour Line A contour line is used to draw the outside edge of objects. Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Igor Stravinsky. 1920.

5. B. Actual Line Barnett Newman, Dionysius, 1944, 67x49in.

6. Caravaggio The Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600

7. C. Implied Line Not really there but guide the eye or organize the image Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935, 48x48 in. Note lines implied by directional gazes

8. Pierre-Auguste Renoir Le déjeuner des canotiers, 1880–1881 Oil on canvas, 129.5 × 172.7 cm

9. A VENETIAN WOMAN John Singer Sargent (American, b.1856, d.1925) 1882 oil on canvas 93 3/4 x 52 1/2 in. (238.1 x 133.4 cm)

10. Lines used to create emphasis

11. 2. Color Def: When light strikes a surface, the part of the spectrum that is reflected is seen as color.

12. The Color Wheel

13. Warm Colors Mark Rothko Orange and Yellow

14. Cool Colors Vincent Van-Gogh Starry Night

15. 3. Shape Def: A two-dimensional area defined by a closed line.

16. A. Geometric Shapes Mechanically made shapes like squares, circles, etc.

17. B. Organic Shapes Uneven, based on the shapes found in nature.

18. Pablo Picasso The Guitar Player

19. Georgia O’Keefe From the Lake

20. 4. Texture Def: Surface quality, actual or implied.

21. A. Actual Texture Texture that you can feel.

22. B. Implied Texture When something looks like it has a texture even though it doesn’t.

24. 5. Value Def: The lightness or darkness of something, whether in color or black and white.

26. Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa

27. 6. Space

28. Positive Space Def: The area occupied by an image or object.

29. Negative Space The area around images or objects.

31. 7. Form Def: Sometimes called volume, form is three- dimensional shape.

32. A. Real Form Claes Oldenburg Spoonbridge and Cherry

33. B. Implied Form Ex: Shading a drawing to create the appearance of something solid.

38. LINE SHAPE COLOR TEXTURE VALUE SPACE FORM N PERSONAL ADJECTIVE PERSONAL ADJECTIVE PERSONAL ADJECTIVE

39. LINE SHAPE COLOR TEXTURE VALUE SPACE FORM N JAZZ ROCK CLASSICAL