Elements and Principles

This element of art is the path of a moving point and defines the edges of shapes and forms:

• Color

• Value

• Space

• Line

This element is an area enclosed by lines. It can be geometric or organic.

• Texture

• Shape

• Form

• Space

This element of art is 3-Dimensional and occupies space:

• Shape

• Space

• Form

• Line

This element of art is seen when light reflects off an object/surface

• Color

• Line

• Space

• Texture

This element refers to the lightness or darkness of a color and is sometimes called "shading"

• Color

• Line

• Value

• Form

This element refers to the way something feels or the way something looks like it feels:

• Texture

• Line

• Shape

• Space

The distance between, around, above, below and within things:

• Value

• Color

• Shape

• Space

This principle of art refers to how elements are weighted in a work of art:

• Balance

• Pattern

• Unity

• Contrast

This principle of art refers to the repetition of elements in a work of art:

• Movement

• Contrast

• Pattern

• Unity

This principle refers to things that are strikingly different from each other:

• Contrast

• Emphasis

• Balance

• Pattern