Chapter 2: The Art of Printmaking - Elements

This is a path of a dot through space.

• Shape

• Space

• Form

• Line

What the eye sees when light is reflected off an object.

• Color

• Line

• Shape

• Form

How things fell or look as if they feel if touched.

• Line

• Texture

• Space

• Color

When a line meets itself.

• Shape

• Form

• Line

• Space

How a surface looks as if it might feel.

• Tactile Texture

• Rough Texture

• Smooth Texture

• Visual Texture

A three-dimensional shape.

• Form

• Shape

• Space

• Line

A color's name.

• Value

• Hue

• Intensity

• Tint

The brightness or dullness of a color.

• Value

• Tint

• Hue

• Intensity

A mathematically precise shape.

• Organic

• Geometric

• Freeform

• Radial

This is the distance or area between, around & within things.

• Area

• Space

• Shape

• Form