Chapter 5 Flashcards
is the basic building block of visual design. By conventional definition, it is
the path left by a moving point or can be thought of as an extended mark.
Line
Functions of Line
It is used by an artist to control our vision by creating direction.
2) It is used to make an outline and define form.
3) It implies movement and emphasis.
4) It creates pattern and texture.
5) It creates shading and modelling
Lines can be classified into general and specific types. General types
of line are those actual lines which are shown when they are emphasized by making them thick and bold, implied lines which are formed when lines are suggested through formation of objects, and lines formed by edges to separate objects.
Types of lines
those straight and curved lines (vertical, horizontal, diagonal).
Specific lines
suggest aspiration, poise, exaltation, power and force, horizontal lines suggest calm and repose, infinity and stability, and diagonal lines suggest movement, action and life.
Vertical lines
Line of beauty
Curved lines
It is the most appealing element and one of the most expressive elements because its quality affects our emotions directly and immediately
Color
affects the psychological and physiological responses.
Color
Physical Properties of Color. Color has ____, _____ and ______.
Hue, value and intensity
the characteristic of a color that refers to that color’s position on the color wheel.
Hue
Primary hues
Ryb
Secondary hues
Orange, g and v
denotes the lightness or darkness of color, or the quantity of light a color reflects.
Value
the quality of light in a color. It is used to distinguish a brighter tone of a color from a duller one of the same hue, or to differentiate a color that has a high degree of saturation or strength from that is grayed or neutralized.
Intensity
Read the facts
When white is added to any hue, the tone becomes lighter in value, but it also loses its brightness or intensity of color.
2. When black is added to a hue, the intensity diminishes as the value darkens.
3. When gray of the same value is mixed with the color, the intensity diminishes while its value remains the same. The color becomes less bright but will not get lighter or
darker in tone.
4. When complementary hues such as yellow and violet, red and green, blue and orange
are mixed, it will result in a neutral grey.
We cannot change value without changing _____.
Intensity
Colors may also be complementary , split complementary,
analogous and monochromatic colors. Complementary color scheme is composed of one of the primary colors and the combinations of the two others.
Color relationships
scheme is composed of one color and two colors on either side of its complement.
Split complementary
scheme is composed of three neighboring colors in the color wheel, partly derived from a common color.
Analogous color
color scheme is the result of using different value of color.
Monochromatic
Red, orange and yellow are often associated with the sun and are considered ______
warm colors
any color containing blue such as violet, green or blue- green are associated with the air, water and sky and are called
Cool colors
two-dimensional area with identifiable boundaries. It is a space enclosed by lines, and is created by lines, color, value, contrasting texture, or by some combination of these.
Shape
Kinds of Shapes.
Natural
Abstract, non objective
Biomorphic and geometric
