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Lines make objects stand out they challenge our perception, and arouse emotions, and they
against a background may enhance or lessen the aesthetic effect of our surroundings.
Horizontal Lines These are parallel to the In artwork usually indicate calmness and rest. Landscape and
horizon, they do not slant. seascape are primarily horizontals
Vertical Lines They start from bottom show strength, balance, and stability. Vertical lines often
going up or vice versa, communicate a sense of height because they are perpendicular to
they do not lean at all the earth, extending upwards toward the sky.
DAIGONAL These lines are between a rising or falling and have both positive or negative implication.
LINES vertical and horizontal Diagonal lines convey a feeling of movement. Objects in a
line. diagonal position are unstable.
Zigzag Lines These are completed from It indicate chaos, conflict, and confusion as an be perceived in
a mixture of diagonal pictures of war and pictures of most anime characters.
lines.
Curved Lines Curviliniear, they are A curved line that goes around itself forms a spiral oftentimes
organic and natural and seen in seashells. When curved lines continuously move in
adjust direction regularly. opposite directions, they form wavy lines that show graceful
movements.
Actual lines the artist intentionally show the lines in an artwork, a painting for instance, to give the viewer
an interesting aspect of the composition.
Implied lines are used by the artist to make the viewer feel their involvement in interpreting the
composition by seeing and connecting lines where none actually exist.
Color is the most expressive element of art. It shares powerful connection with emotion.
It play a vital role in art. It enhance the beauty in all things. it only seen when light surrounds
an object.
Hue This pertains to the name for which the color is known. The hue is determined by the
wavelength of light physically given by the color.

Value describes the brightness of color. It pertains the absence of white or black. Artists use color
value to create different moods. Dark colors in a composition suggest a lack of light, as in a
night or interior scene.

Intensity it refers to the purity of the color.

Color with high saturation tend to be bright, and color with low saturation tend to be dull.
Additive and Colors of light are additive in the sense that when you combine the colors the result will be
Subtractive white.
Colors Colors of pigments are subtractive.

Primary Colors In the color wheel can be seen the three primary colors, which are red, yellow, and blue.
They are called primary colors because these colors cannot be produced by the mixture of any
other colors.
Secondary are colors made by mixing of two primary colors in a given color space.
Colors
Intermediate can result to the combination of a primary and secondary colors
color
Tertiary colors are created by the combining any two secondary colors.
Neutral colors It can be defined as those colors to which you can't give a definite color name. These colors
include beige, cream, ivory, white, grey, brown and natural wood.
Temperature Colors also have “temperature” that may be used as another way to organize a composition.
Colors associated by sun and fire
warm color
cool colors Any colors associated by with air, sky, earth and water
Shape is the next interesting element of the visual arts.
Fichner(2013) shape result from the coming together of lines enclosing an are and separating it from its
surroundings.
German Gestalt discovered that the way the human brain process information is done by organizing objects into
groups based on similarity, nearness, and figure-ground relationships.
Geometric for instance, are regular and precise and present an industrial feel to the viewer.
shapes are made out of points and lines including the triangle, square, and circle.

Organic shapes are said to have a natural appearance and are usually curvilinear and irregular.