Visual art and its elements

• Visual Arts - Are forms of art that create works using perceptual and sensory experiences. These experiences can be sight, touch and sound.
• Ways to categorize visual arts

  • dimension (2d or 3d)
  • Media
  • Genre
• Elements of visual arts

  • line
  • form
  • texture
  • value
  • color
• line - It is a geometrical figure made by a movement of a point or dot.
• line - A long, narrow mark made on a surface
• Artists use lines to create a sense of movement, direction and form
• straight line

  A) horizontal

  B) vertical

  C) diagonal

  
• curve lines

  A) zigzag

  B) wave lines

  C) curl lines

  D) spiral

  E) arc/semi circle

  
• broken lines

  A) dotted

  B) dashed

  
• Symbolisms of Line

  • horizontal line - balance
  • vertical line - pride
  • diagonal line - injustice
  • Curve line - confusion
  • Broken line - Guide
• form - It is the visual shape of an object.
• form -  It is a three-dimensional object.
• form can be geometric (cube, a sphere) or organic (a tree, human figure)
• Artist use form to create a sense of volume and mass.

   
• Kinds of forms

  • polygon
  • deformed
• examples of polygon

  • quadrilateral (rectangle, square, kite rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid)
  • triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon
• kinds of deformed shapes

  
• Symbolisms of Forms

  • Circle/ Round – Infinity
  • Triangle – Hierarchy
  • Star-shaped – Fame
  • Heart –shaped - Love
• texture - It is the softness and roughness of an object.
• ·         Texture can be real (the texture of a painted canvas) or implied (the texture of a smooth marble sculpture).
• Artists use texture to add interest and variety to their work
• Symbolisms of Texture

  • Softness – smoothness
  • Roughness – failures
• value - It is the lightness and darkness of an object
• value - This deals with the different kinds of shadings in making or sketching the subject
• Value can be used to create a sense of depth, space, and form.
• hatching

  • Parallel lines in one direction
  • Creates shadows and form with varying darkness
• Cross- hatching

  • Lines in multiple directions, crossing each other
  • Creates darker tones and richer shadows by layering lines
• what is this

  A) hatching

  B) cross hatching

  
• hatching - you are making all the lines go in the same direction.
• cross hatching - you are drawing parallel lines, varying the direction of the lines and layering them to obtain different intensity of shading.
• cross hatching - The more lines you cross over each other, the darker the area gets
• cross hatching

  
• contour lines - to have the lines follow the shape of what you are drawing. 
• contour lines - •       are like imaginary lines drawn on a map that connect all the points on the ground that are at the same elevation (height) above a certain level, usually sea level.
• contour lines

  
• identify

  A) cross hatching

  B) hatching

  C) contour lines

  
• pointilism - •       painting technique where artists create an image using tiny dots of pure color.
• pointilism - These dots come together to form the image when viewed from a normal distance
• pointilism - •       Uses unmixed colors applied in small dots unlike the traditional painting
• stippling - This technique involves using tiny dots of varying sizes and densities to create tones and shadows. It can be done with pens, pencils, or even ink applied with a brush.