1. The building blocks or ingredients of art.
The Elements of Art
The building blocks or ingredients of art.

2. LINE
A continuous mark, longer than it is wide.
Ansel Adams

3. lines can have many qualities:
As you have seen,
lines can have many qualities:
They can be curved or straight
Vertical horizontal diagonal
Thick or thin smooth or rough
Light or dark and continuous or broken

4. Piet Modrian
Lines can be…
Perpendicular: lines that intersect creating 90 degree angle
Parallel: straight lines that are evenly spaced at all times

6. SHAPE
An enclosed area; 2-dimensional.
Joan Miro

7. GEOMETRIC SHAPES
Shapes that are regular and precise. They can be measured and have names. Usually have angles (except oval & circle) Examples: squares, rectangles, octagon, circle, etc
ORGANIC SHAPES
Shapes that are irregular, difficult to measure and do not have mathematical names. Usually free-flowing. Examples: Teardrop, heart, leaf, etc.

8. Stan McQueen

9. FORM A 3-dimensional object or figure;
Implied form is when something in a 2D artwork appears to be 3D.
Jean Arp

10. SHAPE VS. FORM
2D D
Space Volume

11. Ron Barrick
Leonardo DaVinci

12. SPACE
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
Claude Monet
Space can be shown through foreground, middle-ground and background (creates DEPTH)

13. 2 TYPES OF SPACE
Positive (the subject)
Negative (the background)

15. VALUE
The lightness or darkness of a color or tone.
MC Escher

16. TINT: light values of a color or tone.
SHADE: dark values of a color or tone.

17. Russell Hart

18. COLOR The result of light reflections as seen by the eye.
Alexander Calder

19. COLOR HAS 3 PROPERTIES…
HUE: the actual color itself (its name: red, blue, green)
VALUE: the lightness or darkness (dark red, red, pink)
INTENSITY: the brightness or dullness (fluorescent pink vs. pastel pink)

20. This is a color wheel.
It is used to help
in color identification,
mixing and choosing.

21. TEXTURE Texture is the way something feels to touch.
Implied texture is the way it appears to feel.

23. The artists’ “checklist” to creating a strong visual composition
The Principles of Art
The artists’ “checklist” to creating a strong visual composition

24. BALANCE
the distribution of the visual weight

25. Balance can be symmetrical (same on both sides), asymmetrical (not the same but similar visual weight), or radial (same around a center point).

26. RHYTHM
Repetition used to create a sense of visual movement

27. UNITY
Feeling of harmony; all parts working together

28. VARIETY
To have change in elements throughout your photograph in order to add interest

29. EMPHASIS
Focal point; Point of interest