Elements and Principles of Arts

Strokes that show motion and connect two points. Maybe vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and etc.

• form

• line

• space

• texture

The lightness or darkness of an object or color.

• line

• form

• value

• color

Hue. May be complimentary, primary, secondary, tertiary, analogous, or part of a color wheel.

• color

• space

• value

• shape

Area enclosed when both sides of a line meet (2-D objects)

• shape

• color

• value

• texture

The feel, real or implied, on an object or its surface

• space

• shape

• color

• texture

What is between objects, also known as negative space

• color

• space

• shape

• texture

Shows an object in space, the mass or positive space it occupies (3-D objects).

• form

• shape

• space

• texture

A large difference between two things to create interest and tension

• contrast

• balance

• emphasis

• rhythm

The feeling of wholeness or the part belonging together

• balance

• movement

• unity

• emphasis

The motion created in a work of art. Often uses the principle of rhythm to achieve this.

• balance

• unity

• emphasis

• movement