Elements of Art
The path of a point moving through space.
What is a line?
What your eye sees when light is reflected off an object.
What is color?
This happens when a combination of elements is used to make items in the artwork look as if they belong together.
What is unity?
Artists use this principle to make sure one item or element in an artwork does not have more visual weight than another.
What is balance?
Refers to how light or dark something is.
What is value?
An object that has three dimensions: width, height and depth.
What is a form?
This principle refers to how objects in an artwork relate to each other in size and location, or how they relate to the artwork as a whole.
What is proportion?
We used these principles in our fantasy landscape drawing.
What are unity and variety?
The way something feels or looks as if it would feel.
What is texture?
The "parts" of an artwork.
What are the elements of art?
This refers to combining different elements of art to make an artwork more interesting.
What is variety?
We used this principle to compare the sizes of objects in our "Bottle That" drawing and to compare sizes in our portrait and figures drawings.
What is proportion?
An enclosed area created using lines or other elements.
What is a shape?
We used these elements when we created our fantasy landscape drawing.
What are line and shape?
This principle involves repeating an element to make an artwork seem like it is active or has energy.
What is rhythm?
Artists use this principle to arrange elements to lead the viewer to see a sense of action, or to lead the viewer's eye in a certain direction.
What is movement?
The distance or area around, between, and within the parts of an artwork.
What is space?
Artists show different levels of this when they shade.
What is value?
This principle is used to make an element or an item in an artwork stand out.
What is emphasis?
We used this principle to make sure none of the planets in our planet drawing looked too heavy when compared to the rest.
What is balance?