LINE

• Is a mark with greater length than width
• Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal
• Straight or curved
• Thick or thin

SHAPE

• A shape Is a closed line, and can be geometric
• Like squares or circles ; can be organic like free-form or natural shapes
• Shapes are flat and not 3-D
• They can also express length and width

FORMS

• 3-D SHAPES EXPRESSING LENGTH, WIDTH, AND DEPTH.
• Balls, cylinders, boxes, and pyramids are forms.

COLOR

• Is light reflected off of objects
• Color has three main characteristics: hue (the name of the color, such as red, green, blue and etc.) value (how light or dark it is) and intensity (how bright or dull it is).

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• White is pure light; black is the absence of light
• Primary colors are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All other colors are mixes of primary colors
• Secondary colors are two primary colors mixed together (green, orange, violet).

Intermediate colors, sometimes called tertiary colors, are made by mixing a primary and secondary color together. Some examples of intermediate colors are yellow green, blue green, and blue violet

SPACE

SPACE

• The space around objects is often called negative space
• Negative space has shape
• Shape can also refer to the felling of depth
• Real space is three dimensional; in visual art when we create the felling or illusion of depth, we call it space

TEXTURE

• Is the surface quality that can be seen and felt
• Textures can be rough or smooth, soft or hard
• Textures do not always feel the way they look
• For example, a drawing of a porcupine may look prickly but if you though the drawing the paper is still smooth

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