Elements of ART!

To start off the school year I like to teach the basics of art, aka ELEMENTS. Yes it sounds rather boring but once an artist can master the knowledge of the elements then they can push their artwork to the extreme and make their composition that much more interesting to the viewer.

The elements are: Shape, Form, Value, Space, Line, Texture, Color  With each element we did a mini exercise. And then on the finally projects students choose their own objects to draw and divided them into broken pieces. This style reminds me of cubism. In each broken piece students did their own thing focusing in on one element at a time. There was such a wide variety of styles and unique eyes! Here are a few and you can see the rest hanging in the hallways.