Suggests shape, pattern, form, structure, growth, depth, distance, rhythm, movement, and a range of emotions
Psychological response to different lines
Curvedlines suggest comfort and ease
Horizontallines suggest distance and calm
Verticallines suggest height and strength
Jaggedlines suggest turmoil and anxiety
Thicklines can express strength
Thinlines can express delicacy
Shape and Mass
Shapes can be transparent or opaque, positive or negative, decorative or symbolic, colored, patterned, or textured. Mass is the physical volume of a shape and the space that it occupies
Form
Natural or man-made, regular or irregular, flat (2-dimensional) or solid (3-dimensional), representational or abstract, geometric or organic
Color
Creates the mood or atmosphere of an artwork
The Color Wheel is an arrangement of primary, secondary, and tertiary colors
Color
Strongest effect on our emotions
Creates the mood or atmosphere of an artwork
Color Wheel
Arrangement of primary, secondary, and tertiary colors
Color Schemes
ANALOGOUS
MONOCHROMATIC
COMPLEMENTARY
TRIADIC
SPLIT-COMPLEMENTARY
TETRADIC
HUE
Original color
SHADE
+ black
TINT
+ white
TONE
+ grey
Value refers to the lightness or darkness of an area
Value gives an illusion of depth to a two-dimensional object
Texture refers to the feel or appearance of a surface
Texture may be described as actual or implied
Space refers to the distance between or the area around and within shapes, forms, colors, and lines