This document provides an overview of key art elements and principles including: - Contour line, line quality including thick, thin, dark lines and cross hatching - Value scale and use of value in works by Matisse and Chagall - Texture and examples of visual and physical textures - Contrast and use of contrast to guide the eye - Movement and use of elements to move the eye around a composition - Pattern and repetition of elements - Unity, rhythm, composition addressing arrangement and use of space - Balance and symmetry - Previous examples are reviewed and essential questions about developing ideas and identifying aesthetic qualities are posed.

1. Intro Art
Drawing from a bag

2. Reviewing some of the
Elements of Art &
Principles of Design

3. Contour Line: a continuous line
Image information:
http://www.alexandercsd.org/art/Portfolio/steve/steve.htm

5. Line Quality
VARY YOUR LINE QUALITY!
THICK
Light
THIN
DARK

6. Cross Hatching
Rembrandt
The Flight into Egypt: Crossing the Brook
Etching and dry point, 1654

7. Image information:
http://www.methart.com/tutorials/hatching.
html

8. Value Scale
Sarah Beifuss

9. VALUE: lightness or darkness
Henri Matisse
Marc Chagall (original in colour

10. Texture: the appearance or feel of the surface
Photographer: Jonathan Winkler

11. Texture
Image information:
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~helwig/diss/pics-big/1051-spot-texture.jpg

13. Contrast:
to combine and stress bold
differences in art elements
(half close your eyes and look from a distance to see
if there is enough contrast)

14. Joe Bly

16. Movement:
planning the placing of art elements
to make the viewer’s eye move
around the art work.
Think of keeping your eye moving around the
picture like a ball on a pinball machine.

19. Pattern: using an art element over
and over again.

21. Unity:
a sense of harmony or wholeness
in the artwork

23. Rhythm:
repetition of an art element to suggest
movement

25. Composition:
The way things are arranged on the paper.
The main things that affect composition
are: size, repetition, position: vertical,
diagonal, horizontal, positive and negative
space.

27. Balance
Notice how each figure has some
space to look into.

30. Previous Examples

37. Essential Questions:
1.How do you develop original ideas?
2. What is 'beauty'?
3. What non-visual aesthetic qualities
can we use to identify an object?
4. What factors are important in
effectively communicating original
ideas?