Elements of The Visual Arts
Elements of The Visual Arts
Elements of The Visual Arts
GREEN ORANGE
BLUE
RED
VIOLET
INTERMEDIATE or
TERTIARY COLORS
Yellow orange
Red orange
Red violet
Blue violet
Blue green
Yellow green
WARM- ASSOCIATED WITH FIRE AND THE SUN. COOL- ASSOCIATED WITH WATER AND SKY.
COLORS SEEM TO COME TOWARDS YOU IN SPACE COLORS SEEM TO GO BACK IN SPACE
COMPLEMENTARY ANALOGOUS
COMPLEMENTARY ANALOGOUS
Black – despair, gloom, death, and mourning.
The darkest and dullest of the colors. It is only
considered a color when mixed with other colors.
Blue – tranquility, calmness, and peace.
It is the color of the sky and gives the impression
of vastness and infinity.
Red – fire, blood, danger, festivity, bravery.
War. Passion, energy, and warmth.
It is a basic color.
Gray – weight, solidity, and neutrality.
The combination of black and white or the three
primary colors.
Violet – shadows, mourning, penance,
royalty, and power.
A mixture of red and blue.
Green – growth, freshness, and hope.
The color of the still water and vegetation.
White – simplicity, clarity, purity, and
innocence.
Orange – deliciousness and sweetness and
being assertive.
A combination of red and yellow.
Yellow – life, joy, sunshine, cheerfulness,
warmth, splendor, freedom and hospitality.
It is the color of light.
Pink – sympathy and gratitude
The combination of red and white.
Thank
I love you you
Secrecy Sympathy
Desire Unity
TINTS- WHITE ADDED SHADES- BLACK ADDED
TINTS- WHITE ADDED SHADES- BLACK ADDED
FULL INTENSITY FULL INTENSITY
Deals primarily with
our sense of “touch”.
Can be identified by
touch or sight.
Is the visual surface
quality of an object.
Rough, smooth, fine,
coarse, shiny, dull…
Over-all design of a
work of art.
Refers to the three-
dimensionality of an
object. Shading a
circle in a certain
manner can turn it
into a sphere.
Entire work
Deals with the KINDS OF PERSPECTIVE
effect of distance Linear – representation
upon the of an appearance of
appearance of distance by means of
objects, by means converging lines.
Aerial/Atmospheric-
of which the eye representation of
judges spatial relative distances of
relationships. objects by gradations of
tone color.
LINEAR AERIAL/ATMOSPHERIC
Distance of area
between, around,
above, below or within
shapes
Usually related to
showing foreground,
middleground, and
background on a flat
surface.
Solidity or thickness of
a work of art.
It appears to be 3
Dimensional
It has width, height
and depth.