Elements of design

• Elements of Designs

  • Line

  • Shape/Form

  • Value

  • Colour 

  • Texture

  • Space
•   A line can be where a drawing starts,

  or lines can tie everything together in a work of art.
• Implied line is the creation of the illusion of a line
• contour lines describe the surface and edge of a subject

   
•   Actual line is a non-interrupted line
• Geometric shapes such as circles, triangles or squares have perfect, uniform measurements and don't often appear in nature.
• Organic shapes are associated with things from the natural world, like plants and animals
• Wherever the ends of a continuous line meet, a shape is formed.
• Static Shape-Shapes that appears stable and resting. Dynamic Shape-Shapes that appears moving and active
• ∙Positive Shapes-In a drawing or painting positive shapes are the solid forms in a design such as a bowl of fruit. In a sculpture it is the solid form of the sculpture.
• Negative Shapes-In a drawing it is the space around the positive shape or the shape around the bowl of fruit. In sculpture it is the empty shape around and between the sculptures
• Form is the three-dimensionality of an object. Shape is only two-dimensional; form is three-dimensional.
• In drawing or painting using value can imply form. Shading a circle in a certain manner can turn it into a sphere
• VALUE is the range of lightness and darkness within a picture
• Value is created by a light source that shines on an object creating highlights and shadows
• Value creates depth within a picture making an object look three dimensional with highlights and cast shadows
• High-Key is where the picture is all light values.
• Low-Key is where the picture is all dark values.
• Tint is adding white to color paint to create lighter values such as light blue or pink.
• Shade is adding black to paint to create dark values such as dark blue or dark red.
• in a landscape where colour gets lighter in value as it recedes to the background giving the illusion of depth.
• Value Scale is a scale that shows the gradual change in value from its lightest value, white to its darkest value black.

   
• Hue: refers to the names of the colours, red, green and blue

  • Intensity: the purity or saturation of the colour
• The primary colours are red, yellow, and blue. Red, yellow, and blue are called "primary" colours because they can not be mixed from other colours.

    
• All other colors can be mixed using the three primary colors. The "secondary" colors, orange, green, and violet, are mixes of the primary colors
• Colours such as red——orange, red—-violet, yellow—-green, yellow—-orange, blue-violet, and blue-green, are mixed from primary and secondary colours and are called tertiary colours
• Monochromatic color: use of one colour where only the value of the colour changes
• Analogous colours next to each other on the colour wheel "get along" and are referred to as being harmonious.
• Analogous colors:

  colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel, e.g. yellow and green
• Complementary colours: colours opposite to each other on the colour wheel, e.g. Blue-violet and yellow, represent colours positioned across from each other on the colour wheel
• • Triad color schemes are formed by three equally spaced color on the wheel.

  • tend to be quite vibrant, even if you use pale or unsaturated versions of your hues.

  • To use a triadic harmony successfully, the colors should be carefully balanced - let one color dominate and use the two others for accent.
• Cool colours include: violet, blue and green because of our association with snow and ice.
• Warm colours include: yellows, red and orange we associate these with blood, sun and fire.
• All Native Canadian religions see the world as full of connected spiritual forms, in animals , trees, rocks, as well as human beings. Therefore their relationship with the land is one of spiritual connection, not one of struggle or conquest.

   
•  Artists can create the illusion of texture through the choice of medium and surface receiving the medium.

  – smooth  (SM-)

  – bumpy. (BUMP-)

  – soft. (SOF-)

  – hard (HA)

  – shiny. (SHI)

  – bouncy (BOIN)
• Positive shapes occupy positive space. The area around positive shapes, the background, is negative space.
• volume: is related to amount of space a form uses

  positive and negative shapes:

  • positive indicates filled space

  • negative indicates empty space.

  These work together to form figure-ground relationships.

    
•  • figure-ground reversals:

  create optical illusions that contradict our perceptions of positive-negative