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
Tertiary
Tint
Shade
Complementary
Analogous
Warm
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
Mist
by 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
 Moonlight Cottage, Thomas Kincade

Shapes and Reflections I, Arlene Stevens

 SPACE
• Positive area (subject)
• Negative area (background)
• Balance
• Use of area (top/bottom, left/right)
 Is the positive
and negative
space
balanced?

How much
weight does the
black have?
Bullfight III by Pablo Picasso What if it was
reversed?
Is this picture still balanced now that it is reversed?
THE ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
Color
Value
Line
Texture
Shape
Form
Space