Texture It Makes Life Interesting So, let’s briefly discuss our last basic art element, texture. In a nutshell, texture is the way things feel, or the way things look like they might feel if touched. Texture is all around us. The smooth polish of a granite countertop versus the smooth, soft surface of a leather […]
Tints, Shades, Tones Value – Part 2 Tints, shades, and tones. While we’re still on the subject of value, I’d like to very briefly cover a few words you may have heard and maybe even used in the past. You may have even used the words tints, shades, and tones interchangeably, but there is a […]
Value – Part 1 What’s the Big Deal? Value is an incredibly important element of art and with good reason. Simply put, it is the lightness or darkness of hues (colors). When dealing with black and white for example, white is the lightest value and black is the darkest. The value halfway between these extremes […]
Shape, Form, and Space What’s the Difference? Shape is an enclosed two-dimensional geometric or organic shape that has height and width, but no depth. Form is a three-dimensional space that encloses volume, includes height, width, AND depth. Like shape, it can be geometric or organic. Space refers to the areas around, between, and within things […]
Line in Art It’s More Than You Might Think Line, by definition, is a dot that creates an identifiable path by moving in space. It is one, two, or three dimensional and can vary in width, direction, and length. They often define the edges of a form and can be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved or […]
A Brief Note on Color In a Nutshell… I am going to touch briefly on color in this post. In last week’s post, I shared the link for a free Skillshare class I did a couple years ago called How to Draw: The Very Basics. In it, I started off by covering the basic elements […]
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