ELEMENTS OF ART

ELEMENTS= WORDS

• I WALKED HOME

• I SLOWLY STROLLED DOWN THE SNOWY STREET TO MY 3-STORY, BLUE, VICTORIAN HOUSE.

The building blocks of art• Color• Value• Line• Texture• Shape • Form• Space

COLOR

The colors we see are light waves absorbed or reflected by everything around us. In nature, a rainbow is white light that is

broken apart by the moisture in the air.

Primary Secondary

TertiaryTint

ShadeComplementary

AnalogousWarm Cool

From the Lake No.1, Georgia O’Keefe Red Canna, Georgia O’Keefe

The Olive Trees, Vincent VanGogh

VALUE• Lightness or darkness of a color

Romance at Sunset by Kenny Primmer

Blue Rose

by John Fitzgerald

Mistby David Hockney, 1973

Color vs. Value

Henri Matisse, Green Stripe (Madame Matisse), 1905. Romaine Brooks, Self-Portrait, 1923.

LINE

TEXTURE

SHAPE Organic

Geometric

Shape Design by Wade Brookes from www.art.com

Bellagio by Bruce Marrow

Color Study- Squares with Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky from www.art.com

FORM• Shapes are flat, a form is not• Height, width, and thickness

Shapes and Reflections I, Arlene Stevens

Moonlight Cottage, Thomas Kincade

SPACE• Positive area (subject)• Negative area (background)• Balance• Use of area (top/bottom, left/right)

Bullfight III by Pablo Picasso

Is the positive and negative space balanced?

How much weight does the black have? What if it was reversed?

Is this picture still balanced now that it is reversed?

THE ELEMENTS OF DESIGNColorValueLine

TextureShape FormSpace