Welcome Back and Thank God Please download an

Welcome Back and Thank God! • Please download an App called “autodesk sketchbook” • We’re going to make some art pretty soon. • I’ll give back the exams before too long. • Play around on sketchbook for now and see if you can figure it out.

Visual Art Elements • An element of visual art is anything in the art that the viewer can see.

LINE -Line is the most fundamental of all visual art elements. -When a visual artist starts a composition, it almost always begins with line. Xavier de Callatay Piano Player 1957 Pen and ink on paper

LINE What do you see? No matter what you think you see, all that is visible are a series of lines that are placed together in such a way that they look like something else. How would you describe any of these lines? Rembrandt van Rijn Landscape with a Sportsman Etching c. 1645 -1648

Lines Are Everywhere! Byzantine. Empire Hagia Sophia Brick, Limestone, Sandstone 532 AD Even architecture is designed heavily upon how lines are viewed in the space.

Go to Sketchbook • Divide the page into five shapes • Fill each shape with a type of line that is different in: - Direction - Size - Style

SHAPE -When lines meet and connect, you still have the lines but you have now created a shape. -- We have traditional names for shapes, but shapes do not need names. As long as they are closed, they are shapes. -How would you describe these shapes? Lee Krasner "Black, White and Pink Collage ink and collage on paper 1974

SHAPE -Sometimes the lines disappear, and all you have is shape. --Remember, edges of shapes are not lines, they are just edges of shapes. --Nearly all visual compositions can be split into of a series of shapes. Hans Hoffman Miz—Pax Vobiscum Oil on canvas 1964

SHAPE Even architecture relies on shape. Unknown Arch of Constantine Masonry 315

SHAPE You might see a shape and have no idea you are actually looking at it. Raphael Sanzio Madonna of the Goldfinch 1505 Oil on Wood

Go to Sketchbook 1. Divide your page into at least five shapes. 2. Fill in those shapes so that the lines disappear

COLOR -Color is used as a means of differentiating between shapes -Color relationships are key to creating an aura for the piece -Color has a profound effect on the mood of the viewer -BLACK AND WHITE ARE NOT COLORS!!!! Franz Marc The Large Blue Horse Oil on Canvas 1911

COLOR -Color theory is a science, and one that is a huge conversation piece. -Piet Mondrian calls this a color composition and the end of painting. -What do you think? Piet Mondrian Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue Oil on Canvas 1930

How do you feel in these spaces? Catedral de’l. Emporda Catalonia Spain Cathedral Basillica St. Louis, MO

Do you see any other elements? Catedral de’l. Emporda Catalonia Spain Cathedral Basillica St. Louis, MO

Go to Sketchbook 1. Divide your page into at least five shapes. 2. Fill in those shapes with color so that it evokes a certain feeling in us.

TEXTURE Shapes can also be filled with texture. -Something we can see that gives an idea of what the surface of the piece feels like. What does this piece feel like to the touch? Auguste Rodin Burghers of Calais Bronze 1895

TEXTURE -Texture can also be used in drawing and painting when the surface is worked in such a way that it gives the appearance of texture, even though there really is none. This piece has opposing textures. Mary Cassatt Motherhood II Oil on Canvas 1906

Chartres Cathedral 1250 AD Stone TEXTURE St. Patrick’s Church

Go to Sketchbook 1. Divide your page into at least five shapes. 2. Fill in those shapes with textures that you make on your own

VALUE -Value is the intensity of a color or tone. - A brighter or deeper color or tone is considered strong in value whereas a lighter color would be considered weaker in value. Kathe Kollwitz Self-Portrait Charcoal on paper 1931

VALUE - Value changes occur in color as well and they really are used to help round out figures to make them look more 3 -dimensional Giotto The Lamentation Fresco 1306

VALUE -Please go to sketchbook and create five shapes. -Fill them in each with a different value of the same color or noncolor.

FORM -A shape that creates the sense of space is a form. -This is most often created by a change of value within a shape. -Circles become… -Squares become… -Triangles become… -Rectangles become… René Magritte La voix des airs (Voice of Space ) Oil on canvas 1931

FORM -3 -dimensional art has form by its very nature Lynda Benglis Tempest Stainless Steel Mesh and Aluminum 1990

FORM By adding forms to a space, you can make the space seem larger. Just knowing that there is an area beyond where you are looking can change your whole perception of the room in which the form is located. Academia Venice, Italy

SPACE -Space as an element creates a sense in the viewer that there exists a place to be within or around the work. James Abbott Mc. Neill Whistler Rotherhithe Etching and drypoint on thin laid japan paper 1860

YOU CAN ALWAYS COMMENT ON THE SPACE Space can be Physical Richard Serra Inside Out Weatherproof Steel 2013 There Might be No Space Gerhard Richter Abstract Painting 1990 Oil on Canvas

SPACE CAN AFFECT YOU SPIRITUALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY

Add Form to a Space 1. Find an image of an empty space. Indoor or outdoor and save it to your photos. 2. On sketchbook, tap the tools in the middle of your top tool bar 3. Import the image into your page. 4. Take a picture of one of your classmates. 5. Import that picture. 6. Now start to erase all of the background so that it looks like your form is in the space behind it. If you finish early, please keep adding stuff to your space. Make it as weird as you can.