Elements+of+Art

=**Line Shape Space Form Color Value Texture**=

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**Line:media type="custom" key="4419245"**
Line is the basic element to any drawing, form, painting, creation. We react to Line in a variety of ways. Line can dicate a pathway, direction. boundary, or freedom. In drawing and painting line can be thick, thin, broken, wavy, heavy, or light. As an artist, your use of line shows how mature you are in your ablity. Drawing with a conscious mind of using a varity of Line quality is an important break through.

Examples of Line in various works.





**Shape:media type="custom" key="4419253"**
What is Shape? Well, it's rather simple, it can be geometric or natural. It can be hard edge or soft edge. Shape can be simple or complex, symmetrical or asymmetrical, shape can be made in to symbols that we recognize and respond to on a daily basis. Shape is what we identify when we look at objects. All form breaks down into basic shapes. Shapes can build upon each other to take on a new form. Shape can be used to make Pattern, create Balance, to help create Unity and create Texture. Shape just like Line is essential create art.

**Space:media type="custom" key="4419259"**
What is Space? Well, besides being a vast universe beyond our planet it can be described as foreground, middle ground, and background. Space can be precieved to be deep or shallow, close or far way. Space is distance and depth of a composition. Space can be created as simply by overlapping two shapes. It can be more complex by using 1-point, 2-point, or multi-point perspective. Space can also be discussed and rendered as atmospheric perspective, where the colors in the background look bluer and grayer and at time fuzzier (hazy), items closer to you look crisper and more brighter colored. Look at the images below to see examples of space.





=**Formmedia type="custom" key="4486822"** = Form is considered when discussing the overall dimensions of an objects. Form is usually related to sculptures or objects that can be seen from all size. A sculptured, building, pottery, even a car has form.

=**Colormedia type="custom" key="4486830"** = Color can also be called Hue. Color is created when white light is refracted by a prism. It breaks down in to 7 different colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Color can be warm or cool. Colors are considered either Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Analogous, and Complementary. Color can also express emotion, urgency, peacefulness, seasons, and more.





= = =**Value** media type="custom" key="4486832"= Value is how dark or light a color appears. Its the gradation of color. The steps between the dark to light. Value is a very important element when shading a drawing, drawing, or illustration.







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= = == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =**Texturemedia type="custom" key="4486838"** = Texture can be simulated or real. Simulated texture would ones that one creates through drawing. Using drawing techniques such as cross-hatching, and hatching, stippling. One can also create texture by rubbing a soft crayon, graphite, charcoal, or even a pastel over a physical item that has a texture to it. Texture can also be creates on 3-dimensional items such as pottery, textiles and other man-made objects. Texture is also found in nature. Everything from a flower to a mighty oak tree has texture.