"Connected" oil pastel based upon Team Building Day RHAM Middle School, Fall 2006. Copyright Brian Merrill

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Elements Of Art


Raquette Lake Inlet, a digital painting copyright 2007 by Brian Merrill.
What elements of art do you see present? What makes you think so?

The elements of Art are physical, visible parts that make up a work of art. They are like nouns (things) in language arts. There are seven elements, best learned in this order: space, line, shape, form, texture, value and color. The elments are common to all art whether a painting or a design for a t-shirt. Regardless of quality: good, bad, beautiful or ugly...all art has the elements. Like the parts of a automobile, they are what makes art, literally " a thing to behold".
Each of the elements of art has special characteristics, or powers of visual persuasion, that make it both unique and interactive with the other elements. The elements are truly "the alphabet of visual art".

1 Space: The place where all of the elements are organized to make a composition.

2 Line: A dot that moves.

3 Shape: A line that touches itself; an enclosed space; a two dimensional (2-d) object.

4 Form: A three dimensional (3-d) object.

5 Texture: Something we can touch (real) or appears to have surface variation (implied).

6 Value: The darkness or lightness of a color or a neutral. Adding white makes a tint, adding black makes a shade.

7 Color: A visible spectrum of light.
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Everything I ever wanted to know I learned in the art room. 1. Art is life. Life art. Being famous has nothing to do with it. Loving God has everything to do with it. Live it fully now. 2. Share your ideas and they’ll become reality. Share your materials and you’ll have grateful friends. Share your art and you’ll never be alone. 3. Know your limits. There are no limits to what God can accomplish through you. 4. Create something new everyday. It opens clogged minds every time. 5. Hate Art? Read a book, sing a song, tell a story, dance a jig, count stars, make a cake. They all involve art. 6. Doodle something and give it away. It will cheer hearts…the doodler and the doodle-ee. 7. Sharpen both ends of a pencil. Scribble, figure, write. Life’s too short to erase. 8. Make a greeting card and send it to yourself. 9. Dream big. Draw big. Never stop making. 10. Drawing well and drawing water from a well require the same basic ingredients: time and effort. To live fully, give fully. Recycle yourself…refer back to 1.