ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
Line: a mark on a surface from one point to another that describes a shape or outline. A line can be described as thick, thin, straight, curved, jagged, broken, implied, contour, expressive, constructive, vertical, horizontal or diagonal Shape: a two-dimensional line that has no form or thickness and intersects itself to enclose a space. The two main groups of shapes are geometric and organic. Color: When light is broken by a prism, the spectrum of colors is visible. Primary Colors: Red, Blue, Yellow Can mix to make all other colors Secondary Colors: Orange, Green, Violet (or Purple) Made from mixing two primary colors together Intermediate (or Tertiary) Colors: Red-orange, Red-violet, Blue-green, Blue-violet, Yellow-green, Yelloworange Made from mixing a primary color with an adjacent secondary color Neutral colors: Brown, gray, black, white Complementary colors: Colors that are opposite one another on the color wheel and are completely opposite in composition Yellow and Violet, Red and Green and Blue and Orange are the three sets Warm Colors: Red, Red-orange, Orange, Yellow-orange, Yellow Cool colors: Violet, Blue-violet, Blue, Blue-green, Green Analogous colors: a family of colors that all share one component in common, four consecutive colors on the color wheel. Example: Blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green (all have blue in their composition) Triadic colors: three colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. Example: red, blue, yellow Value: the light and dark of a color, variation in tints and shades A tint is the light value of a color, a shade is a dark value of a color. A gradient shows the steps between the tints and shades of a color. Texture: refers to the surface quality and is either visual (you can see it) or tactile (you can feel it), the degree of roughness or smoothness of a surface. Form: a three dimensional object that has volume and thickness. In a two-dimensional work of art, form can be implied through the use of values to make an object appear three-dimensional. Space: Can be positive and is the space taken up by the objects or negative and is the space between the objects
Waterford Public Schools
K-12 Art Curriculum
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