Elements of Art
By: Kristeren Fatima P. Terol

Art
It is the product or process of
deliberately arranging items in a
way that influences and affects
one or more of the senses,
emotions, and intellect.
The elements of art are the
building blocks used by artists to
create a work of art.

7 Elements of Art
• Line
• Shape
• Form
• Value
• Texture
• Color
• Space

Line
• a mark that is made on a surface or
outline.
• defined by a point moving in space.
• Can be two-or threedimensional, descriptive, implied, or
Abstract.

5 main kinds of line
A. Horizontal Line
• Lines that run
parallel to the
ground
B. Vertical Line
• Lines that move up
and down.

C. Diagonal Line
D. Curved Line
• Lines that slant.
• Lines that change
direction gradually.

E. Zigzag line
• Lines that are made by combining
diagonal lines that change direction.
• These lines when viewed in a work of art
create confusion. They suggest action
and excitement.

Shape
• It has always two dimensions, length as
well as width.
• It is represented as an enclosed area that
is defined by color, value, space, texture
and form.
• When lines form together, they make flat
shapes.

Categories of Shapes
A. Geometric Shapes
• Also called as regular shapes.
• These are shapes that are easy to
recognize and is use in math information
also.

B. Organic Shapes
• Also called as freeform shapes
• These are shapes that seem to follow no
rules.
• Figures that have a natural look and a
flowing, curving appearance.

C. Positive Shapes D. Negative Shapes
• It is the solid forms • It is the space
in a design
around the positive
shape.
• Occupy positive
space.
(The positive space is masked by black.)
(The negative space is masked by black.)

E. Static Shape
F. Dynamic Shape
• It appears stable
and resting.
• It appears as if
moving and active.

Form
• Has always three dimensions; length,
width and height.

Types of Form
A. Cube
• A regular solid of
six equal square
sides.
B. Cylinder
• A surface traced by a
straight line moving
parallel to a fixed
straight line and
intersecting a fixed
planar closed curve.

C. Cone
D. Sphere
• A solid generated by • A round solid figure,
rotating a right
or its surface, with
triangle about one of every point on its
its legs.
surface equidistant
from its center.

Value
• Refers to the changes in the base color.
• Range of lightness and darkness within a
picture.

Categories of Value
A. Tint
B. Shade
• Adding white to color • Adding black to paint
paint to create lighter to create dark values
values such as light
such as dark blue or
blue or pink.
dark red.

C. High-Key
D. Low-Key
• Where the picture • Where the picture
is all light values.
is all dark values.

E. Value Contrast
F. Value Scale
• Where light values
• A scale that shows
are placed next to
the gradual change in
dark values to create value from its lightest
contrast or strong
value, white to its
differences.
darkest value black.

Texture
• The quality of a surface or the way any work
of art is represented.
• Also refers to the way a picture is made to
look rough or smooth.
Categories of Texture
• Real Texture
• Implied Texture

color
• Has three characteristics, which are hue,
value and intensity.
• Hue means the shades (red, yellow or
pink)
• Value refers to the lightness or the
darkness.
• Intensity refers to the brightness or
dullness of the work of art.

Space
• It is the creation of visual perspective;
this gives the illusion of depth.
• It can also mean the way an artist uses
the area within the picture plane.
• Real space is actually three-dimensional.