Elements Of Art Poster

Since I'm getting ready to teach the girls about the elements of art,

I thought we should make a poster as a quick introduction

and also

to have as a reference for later.

You can make one for your home, too!

We started with a piece of poster board

titled it and made 6 spaces for the elements

Before we started I explained that the elements of art are the building blocks of art,

every piece of art has at least one or two elements

I started with color,

telling the girls that light contains all of the colors

the colors that we see is light bouncing off an object

all the other colors are absorbed.

White is all the colors being reflected,

black is all the colors being absorbed

Next we talked about shape

starting with the basics

square, circle, triangle, etc

then we had fun making up our own shapes!

Texture was a fun element to discuss,

I sent Miss C on a texture hunt and she came back with some great choices

She also demonstrated the appearance of texture with paint

Value was Miss C's favorite element to depict.

Her favorite thing to do is paint and she really was surprised to see the final result of adding white to purple after each stroke she painted

  

I described line by holding a marker to the poster board until it made a small point and then moving it forward

Line can also be described as the path between two points.

Form (in my opinion) is the hardest to show on paper.

Form is a 3d figure,

it has height, width, and depth. 

Shape only has height and width.

Sculptures are a great example of form

but you can create the illusion of form with shading and perspective

Here is our completed poster!

If you make one for your home remember to have fun with it

get creative with finding textures

get silly with drawing lines

and make unique shapes and name them!

Art is fun!!