Mrs Whaley

1. ART
KNOWLEDG
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FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE

2.  What? They are the building block of art.
 Why? It’s like building a pizza or a building. Not every project
requires all of them, but it’s impossible to start without some of
them, like LINE.
 How many?
7

3. LINE
Diagonal Vertical Horizontal
Spiral Zigzag Wavy
- - - - - -
Contour Dashed Curved

4. SHAPE
Geometric
Shapes
Organic Shapes

5. VALUE
Value shows the lightness and darkness of tones and colors.
If you add value (shading) to a shape you give it the
illusion of form.
Value is often used in creating the illusion of
a 3-dimensional object, like this sphere, by
considering where the light would shine on
the object, and where the shadow would be.

6. FORM
A form is a shape, that is 3-dimensional.
Cylinder Cube Sphere

7. TEXTURE
Texture is how something feels when you touch it, or how you might imagine it
would feel if you could touch it.
Bumpy/Knobby Hard/Rough
Jagged/Sharp Soft/Fluffy

8. SPACE
The illusion of distance and/or placement of things in a composition.
In a landscape painting or photograph, space is broken into three
areas:
1. Foreground
2. Middle ground
3. Background
Space can also
mean the positive
and negative areas
of a composition.

9. COLOR
Primary: Red, Blue, Yellow
Secondary: Orange, Purple, Green

17. MONOCHROMATIC + SYMMETRICAL