Transcript Elements and principles book

Elements and principles book
Elements: building blocks of art
Principles: you use the elements to
create these in your artwork
Elements Book Outline
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(Your name)’s elements book
line
shape
form
value
color
texture
space
Each Page
• Copy notes/information about each
element on half of the page
• On the rest of the page, draw examples of
the element
Line
• Direction- horizontal, diagonal, veritcal
• Thickness- thin to thick
• Quality- curved, zigzag, straight, wavy,
looping, swirling, jagged, smooth)
Shape
• (2-dimensional, flat)
• Geometric (square, circle, triangle)
• Organic (star, outline of leaf, flower, cloud,
etc)
Form
• (3-dimensional, have mass and cast
shadows)
• Sphere
• Cube
• Cone
• Prism- triangular (pyramid)
• cylinder
Value
• how light or dark something is
• parts of light- highlight, half tone, base
tone, reflected light and cast shadow
Color
• primary- blue, yellow and red
• secondary colors are made from two primary colors
mixed- green, violet and orange
• intermediate colors- a primary plus secondary (exampleblue/green, red/orange)
• intensity- how bright it is
• tint- add white a color (sky blue, pink, peach, tan, purple)
• shade- add black to a color (gray, forest green, navy
blue, maroon)
• complimentary- opposites on the color wheel
• temperature of color- cool (blue, green and violet)
warm (red, yellow, orange)
Texture
• How it looks like it feels (rough, smooth,
hard, soft, scratchy, etc)
• Hatching, cross-hatching, stippling,
scrumbling,
Space
 Positive and negative space
• Only element that every piece of art
includes
Principles Book Outline
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Unity
Proportion
Contrast
Balance
Movement
Emphasis
repetition
Unity
 Everything works well together to make
the piece feel complete and like it goes
well together
Proportion
 How big or small something is compared
to something else
Contrast
 Using elements to create a significant
difference between areas
 Areas with a small difference are called
low contrast
 Areas with a big difference are called high
contrast
Balance
• Symmetry- can be cut in half and is the
same basic thing on each side
• Asymmetry- is not the same thing on both
sides of the piece but is still balanced
(usually a big object balanced by a lot of
little objects)
• Radial- everything goes out from a center
point
Movement
• Using elements to draw the viewer’s eye
from one place to another in a piece of art
Emphasis
• Using an element to make one area or
object standout more than the parts
around it.
• Color is the fastest way to create
emphasis
Repetition
• Repeating elements to create unity
• When repetition is systematic, it becomes
a pattern