Elements of Design

Question 1

** Line

Answer 1

A moving dot; Implied line is an edge that leads you through the artwork.

Question 2

** Value

Answer 2

The difference of color ranging from the lightest to the darkest; the degree of light to dark in a color. Value make give an object mass, texture, and dimension.

Question 3

** Shape

Answer 3

It is two dimensional and flat. The area is enclosed space. Shapes can be geometric, biomorphic, abstract, etc.

Question 4

** Form

Answer 4

It is three dimensional. They have height, width, and depth. Forms have mass. They can be geometric, biomorphic, abstract, etc.

Question 5

** Texture

Answer 5

Real Texture - Those can be felt

Implied Texture - Textures that are drawn or painted to look like a real texture.

Question 6

** Space

Answer 6

Shallow Space - Very little perspective with nothing overlapping.
Actual Space - Lots of overlapping shapes, differences in object size and depth, differences in colors and values.

Question 7

Space - Positive

Answer 7

What is actually put onto the surface (what is drawn on paper, what is painted on canvas, etc).

Question 8

Space - Negative

Answer 8

What is left empty; what is considered “air”

Question 9

** Color

Answer 9

The way an object reflects or emits light into the eye. The technical name for color is HUE. The color wheel is a circles used to organize colors. It was invented by Sir Isaac Newton.