ELEMENTS OF ART

LINESHAPECOLORTEXTURE

VALUESPACEFORM

LINEA line is a dot moving in

space There are five types of lines

straight curved spiral zig-zag

LINE Vertical horizontal diagonal curved straight spiral zig-zag

Lines

LINES IN WIRE

LINES IN PAINT

SHAPEA LINE ENCLOSING A

SPACEThere are two kinds of shapes

ORGANICGEOMETRIC

GEOMETRIC SHAPES

ORGANIC SHAPES

ColorThe effect of light on an

object

Primary Secondary Tertiary Analogous

Monochromatic Complementary Warm Cool

COLOR COLOR WHEEL

Primary Colors

One of any three basic colors (red, yellow, blue) that cannot be made by mixing colors.

Primary colors are used for mixing other colors.

Primary Colors

Secondary ColorA color made by mixing

equal amounts of two primary colors.

Green, orange, and violet are the secondary colors.

Secondary Colors

Tertiary Color

A color made by mixing a secondary color with a primary color.

Blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, and blue-violet are intermediate colors.

Tertiary Color

Complementary Colors that are directly

opposite each other on the color wheel.

red and green, blue and orange, and violet and yellow.

COMPLEMENTARY

ANALOGOUS COLORS

Colors that are closely related because they have one hue in common.

These colors fall next to each other on the color wheel

Analogous

TEXTURE

Monochromatic Made of only a single color or

hue and its tints and shades.

Tint=color+white shade=color+black or

complement

Monochromatic

Value The darkness or lightness of

a surface.

Value depends on how much light a surface reflects.

Value

Space The empty or open area between,

around, above, below or within objects.

Positive space is filled by a shape or form.

Negative space surrounds a shape or form.

SPACE

Form Any three- dimensional object. A form can be measured from

top to bottom, side to side, front to back.

A shape that can be geld in your hand.

Cube, cylinder, cone, prism, sphere.

Organic Form

Geometric Form