Using stroke, scale, composition, and detail to energize artwork

1. GIVING ENERGY TO
LINE AND SHAPE

2. You can see the movement of the artists’ hand throughout

3. Notice how the curling edges of the shapes energizes the picture (Alex Hamilton)

4. Variances in thick &
thin, sketchy and
deliberate line, large
and small, angular and
rounder shape (Stick
drawing by Liz
Campbell)

5. Placement of shapes, use of white negative space (Amy Cutler)

6. Space broken up by irregularly placed line; angular white negative shapes (Braedon Cox)

7. Continuous line (artist unknown)

8. Even a subject as tranquil as sunflowers can be given an energetic treatment (Kathy Delgado)

9. Motion conveyed by the
rhythms of parallel lines
and shapes of color
(artist unknown)

10. Broken space, broken image (Marc Bauer)

11. Irregular washes “anchor” image to picture plane

12. Circular pattern enlivens the picture (Farrell Beam)

13. “Reducing” ink wash

14. Eric Baden

15. Sigmar Polke

16. Fenix Koh