this power point seeks to give detail information about the elements of design, providing a wide range of visual examples. It further seeks to provide an assessment item by virtue of questions. This power point also serves in the form of lessons, in that an element and its activities may be thought for one specific class.

1. Topic: Elements of Art
Teacher: Mr. Chambers
Grade : 7
Subject: Visual Arts

2. What are the Elements of Art?
•The Elements of Art are the
components that guide Art creation
visually. The elements of Art
include: Line, Shape, Texture,
Colour, Form and Space.

3. •A line is a path Created by a moving
point in a particular space or area.
Lines that are created by marking are
one-dimensional (meaning flat) and
vary in width, direction and length.
What is a line ?

4. Types of line

5. •Objective Line Design
•This is an Art form that uses
Lines to create artistic
composition, with this type of
design, the construction must
have entities that can be
identified.

6. •For example, a complex
design filled with lines and
an image of a plant, animal
or object can be seen or
singled out.

7. Video on Paper Quilling
Examples

15. •Non-Objective Line Design
•This Art form uses Lines
to create art work that are
abstract in nature.

16. •Non-Objective artwork
are nonrepresentational
and does not depict a
person, place or thing;
known or exist in the
natural world.

17. Video on Paper Quilling
Examples

22. End of Lesson 1
Lines, Type of Lines, Objective and
Non-Objective Line design

23. Shapes

28. •A shape can be define as an
outward construction or outline of
an object or organism.
•Shapes are flat in nature and has
a width and height.
What is a Shape ?

29. •Types of Shape
•Geometric Shape
•Organic Shape

30. •Geometric Shape are precise and
mathematical in nature. Example
of this include:
• Circle
•Triangle
•Squares
Geometric Shape

31. Geometric Shape

32. •Organic shapes has irregular
outlines for object or organisms.
Organic shapes are free flowing in
appearance and are normally
found in nature.
Organic Shape

33. Organic Shape

34. Example of Shape
Design

35. Geometric Shape Design

40. Organic Shape Design

44. Class work
Instructions:
1. Create a design using only
Geometric shapes
2. Your Art work must be objective.

45. Example of Geometric Shape
Design

46. Class work
Instructions:
1. Create a design using Organic
shapes
2. There should be another organic
shape design inside the first organic
shape.

47. Draw your Organic Shape
Design

48. Draw Organic Shapes inside the
Design then colour it.

51. End of Lesson 2
Shapes, Type of Shapes, Geometric
and Organic Shapes.

52. Colours

53. •Colour is the element of art that
has many different pigment.
•Colour is produced when light,
striking an object, is reflected back
to the eye.
What is Colour ?

54. How are colours formed?

55. •Colours are formed when energies
of light contain a large spectrum of
pigment touches an area or an
Object.

56. •When light touches an object,
some of these energies are
absorbed (taken in) by it, and
others are reflected (cast back)

57. 1. Tint : a tint is the mixture of a
colour with white, which increases
lightness.
(From darkness to lightness as white is
added)
Terms for Colours

58. 1. Shade : shade is the mixture of a
colour with black, which reduces
lightness.

59. 3. Value: Value is The lightness or
darkness of tones or colours. White is
the lightest value; black is the
darkest.

60. Class work
Task1:
1.Create a tonal value scale with 8 squares,
demonstrating different shades

61. How it is done
Step 1: Use your ruler and measure 8 inches
across your page.

62. How it is done
Step 2: Use your ruler and measure 4 inches
on each sides downwards.

63. How it is done
Step 3: Use your ruler and measure 8 inches
below and connect the lines.

64. How it is done
Step 3: Use your ruler and measure 7 points
one inches apart. Then draw lines
downwards to create 8 boxes.

65. Step 4: shade the created boxes with
values raging from the darkest to the
lightest.(Tint)

66. Task2:
1. Choose and draw an organic shape from
nature and apply the principles to Tint.
( shade from the lightest to the darkest)

67. Home Work
Find out what is the colour wheel and get
a coloured picture of it and paste it in
your scrapbook.
Please take your paint set and at least two
(2) blank sheets to the next class.

68. End of Lesson 3
Colour, Tones, Tints and Values

69. Colours

70. •Primary colour: These are
pigments that exist by itself and
can not be made by mixing other
colours. The primary colours are:
Types of Colour
Red Blue Yellow

71. •Secondary colour: These are
pigments that are formed by
mixing two primary colours
together. For example:
BlueYellow
+ = Green

72. Yellow
+ = Orange
Red + Blue = Purple
Red Orange

73. •Tertiary or Intermediate colours:
These are pigments that are made by
mixing one primary colour with one
secondary colour
+ =GreenYellow
Yellow
Green

74. Red
+ =
Red
Orange
Blue + Green = Blue
Green
RedOrangeRed

75. •A circle with different coloured sectors
used to show the relationship between
colours:
The Colour wheel

76. •These are Colours that are opposite to each
other on the colour wheel are considered to be
complementary colours .
•The high contrast of complementary colours
observed by the opposite positioning of the
Primary colour as oppose to the Secondary
colours. For example Yellow is a primary
colour and it is the opposite to purple, a
secondary colour.
Complementary colours

78. •1.Red is the complementary colour for Green.
•2. Blue is the complementary colour for Orange.
•3.Yellow is the complementary colour Purple.
The complementary colours are:

79. •Analogous colours are colours that are next to
each other on the colour wheel. They usually
match well and create a comfortable designs.
•Analogous colour schemes are often found in
nature and are harmonious and pleasing to the
eye. For example, a series of blue blended with
tones of green and yellow green.
Analogous colours

81. •1. Red, Red Orange, Orange, and yellow
orange.
•2.Yellow, Yellow Green, Green and blue
Green.
•3. Red Violet, Purple, Blue Violet and Blue.
Analogous colours

82. •Monochromatic colours are all the colours
(tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue.
Monochromatic colour schemes are derived
from a single base Colour and extended using
its shades, tones and tints.
Monochromatic colours

86. Create a picture and Write your name
in bold then use a monochromatic
Colour scheme to complete the work.
Class work (task 2)

90. Class work
Task1:
1. Create a colour Mixed Image.

92. How it is done
Step 1: Use your blank sheet of paper.
Step 3: Apply the primary colours with
paint on both sides of the paper.
Step 2: Fold the paper in two
(Equal halves).

94. How it is done
Step 4: Fold the paper again and
allow the colours to mix by merging.
Step 6: After the paint has dried
slightly, open the folded paper.
Step 5: Allow the paint and paper to
dry for a few minutes.

96. How it is done
Step 7: Then allow the paper to dry
completely.
Step 9: Cut your design out and
then place it in your scrapbook.
Step 8: Draw a design or a shape
of an object on the newly coloured
paper.

99. End of Lesson 4
Types of colours: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
colours, The Colour Wheel and
Complimentary, Analogous and
Monochromatic colours .

100. Warm and cool Colours

101. Warm colours are pigments that are
bright in nature and is generally a
reminder of heat, Sunlight or
something that is warm or extremely
hot. The colours that normally used
are:
Warm Colours
Red orange Yellow

102. Artist uses warm colours to evoke
different moods, such as anger or to
show a sense of pain. Warm colours
may be use by itself as one colour or
with a combination of all.

103. Artist also use warm colours in
a symbolic way, for example, the
colour yellow use to represent
Hope, Warmth or the friendly
deeds of people or someone
having a good day.

104. Example of warm colours

105. • Example

112. Cool colours are pigments that or
darker and subtle in nature. They give
the impression of something cool and
calm. They may evoke a sense of
relaxing or evoke the mood of sadness,
loneliness or depression. Colours are :
Cool Colours
blue Purple Green

113. Example of cool colours

122. Class work
1). Create two pictures, one using all the
warm colours and the other using all the
cool colours.
2). Ensure that the drawing is complete by
painting or crayoning.
3). You must state what kind of mood it
evokes.

123. End of Lesson 5
Warm and Cool Colours: The effects
that it implies.

124. Form

125. •Form is one of the seven elements
of Art.
•Form is a three-dimensional
•( 3 D) item or figure. That means
the item or figures has more than
two sides and can be examined all
the way around.
What is Form?

126. Artist normally create form by
editing a shape. This is done when a
variation of tones or various sides is
added to a particular item in order
to give the illusion of a third-
dimension.

127. Forms are place in two categories
Geometric forms which include
mathematical related objects like cubes,
cones and cylinders.
Then there is Organic forms, which are free
flowing and in most cases comes from
nature.

128. Examples of Geometric Forms

129. Picture 1 is a Shape but Picture 2 is a form
Square Cube

130. Sphere
Picture 1 is a Shape but Picture 2 is a form
Circle Sphere

131. Picture 1 is a Shape but Picture 2 is a form
Triangle Cone

132. Picture 1 is a Shape but Picture 2 is a form
Rectangle Cylinder

133. Organic forms: These are three
dimensional objects that are free from
mathematical laws and are irregular and
unpredictable in nature.
Organic forms can be created by man in the
form of objects are illustrations. Organic
forms they also exist in nature naturally, for
example Sea shell or Stone.

134. Examples of Organic Forms From nature
Rocks Sea shells

136. Examples of man made Organic Forms

137. Forms can exist in real life and can be illustrated by
man. This is done when various tones or various
dimension, is added to a drawn shape or design.

138. Activity 1 : answer these questions
1. What is form?
2. What are the two types of form?
3. Give two examples of organic form

139. Activity 2 : You will be drawing two big
pictures and illustrate them as Organic
forms.
Use your pencil and draw any one of the
picture that the teacher will instruct you
to draw.
Ensure that you use 4 different tones to
your picture. From the lightest to the
darkest

140. Example
Organic form of a rose.

143. Picture that should be drawn :
Label :Organic form of an animal

145. Activity 3 : Use a Organic form from
nature and then create a picture from it.
You must label the picture that you have
used and the deign that you have made.

146. The organic Shape is a sea shell and the
design is a dragon head.

148. Activity 4 :use the geometric Shapes to
make a picture and label it as Picture
made by Geometric forms.

152. End of Lesson 6
Organic and Geometric Forms.

153. Texture

154. Texture
•Texture is an element of Art that
refers to the way things feel, or look
as if they might feel if touched.
Texture generally refer to the way
something feels or give the impression
of how something would feel.

155. Type of Texture
1. Tactile or Actual Texture
2. Visual or Simulated Texture

156. (A)Tactile or Actual Texture
Tactile texture is the actual quality
of a surface, such as how rough,
smooth, sticky, fuzzy, or soft an
area is. Tactile texture is one you
can actually feel with your hand,
such as a piece of sandpaper, a wet
glass, tree bark or animal fur.

157. Example Tactile or Actual Texture
How do you think these would feel if
you should touch?

163. (B)Visual or Simulated Texture
Simulated texture is the illusion of
an actual object or figure that has a
unique texture.
This type of texture is created by
artist to appear like the real thing
or give an impression, as if what is
shown could be rough or smooth.

164. Example Visual or Simulated Texture
Which is simulated and how does it
look or seem like it would feel?

169. Actual or Tactile Texture Art work

170. Actual or Tactile Texture Art work

171. Simulated or Visual texture Art work

172. Simulated or Visual texture Art work

173. Class work
Create 3 Simulated texture art,
by drawing the following.
1.A bird for a feathery Texture
2. A reptile for a rough
Texture
3.Cat for a furry Texture

174. Picture of a Bird with a feathery Simulated texture

175. Picture of a Reptile with a rough Simulated texture

176. Picture of a cat with a furry Simulated texture

177. Space

178. Space
Space in Art is any area that is
occupied or surrounding areas that
is empty.
Space is one of the seven elements
of art that artist used to show
depth and distance and it can be
occupied or empty.

179. Types of space
Negative and Positive space

180. Negative Space
Negative space is the area that
surrounds an object in a image.
Negative space is the area that is
not occupied by any unit and
therefore is the empty field that
surrounds a particular object or
unit.

181. Example of Negative Space: A blank
page that will be used for an Art work.

182. Positive Space
Positive space is the field or area
that is occupied by an object or
unit. In other words any
illustration or item that fill the gap
of an empty space, is known as
positive space .

183. The black outline or design of the wolf is occupying
some of the negative space on the white area. The
black outline is therefore positive .

190. Do you see the vase or the two heads?

191. The letter U and A or positive but
the negative white space that
surrounds the letters also form an S
in the center of the two letters.

193. Class Work
Design 2 negative and positive
Artwork in the form of a silhouette.
Switch the order of the colour that
represent positive space.
The design that is occupying the
negative space should be jet black. The
usage of black markers or jell ink pen
is recommended.

194. Example of Class Work
(positive space has a black outline)

196. Example of Class Work
(positive space has a white outline)

200. 1. What is line?
2. List 4 types of lines
3. What is the difference between organic and geometric
shape?
4. Define the term form and give one example of Organic
form and one example of Geometric form.
5. Give a definition for texture and explain what is Visual
texture and what is Actual texture.
6. What is Colour and explain what is Primary colours,
Secondary colours?
7. Explain what is the difference between positive and
Revision questions

201. The End