PAINTING

Elements of Painting
• Line. It is the simplest element in the painting. It has a
continuous marking made by a moving point to outlines
shape and can contour areas within those outlines. It can
suggest movement (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and
curved). Each line has its meaning: vertical line stress action,
strength, dynamism; horizontal lines means serenity,
calmness, stability: diagonal line express tension, movement;
curved lines appear softness, flexibility, gentleness.
• Color. The Artists used colors to convey feelings and
moods within their painting. It is the result of
wavelengths of lights reflecting of objects. It is
composed of three distinct qualities such as the
hue, saturation, and value. Hue is merely the name
of the color. Red, yellow, and the blue are a primary
color. Their mixture that produces the secondary
colors are green, orange, and purple.
• Texture. It is a component of two-sided and three-
sided designs and distinguished by its perceived
visual and physical properties. It is used to Iscribe
the way a three-dimensional work feels when
touched. In twodimensional models, such as
painting, it may refer to the visual "feel" of a
• piece (Isaac, 2017).
Perspective. It is an art technique for creating an illusion of
threedimension with depth and space. Its real goal is
creating a viewpoint for the audiences that will best
communicate the subject and serve particular message:

Perspective is the same as "viewpoint" and

"position." It is what makes a painting seem to have form,
distance, and look "real" (Evans, 2002). It is projected
according to its levels namely: foreground, middle ground,
and background.
 The foreground is the visual
plane that appears closer to the
viewers. On the other hand, the
middle ground is the part between
the foreground and the part of
which is which is called the
background. The foreground of a
composition is the illustrative
plane that appears closest to the
viewer, while the background is
the plane in a composition
perceived farthest from the
viewers. The middle ground is the
illustrative plane between the
foreground and the background.
The scale of these elements often
associates to the dominance in a
picture. The foreground is
frequently the most dominant due
to the larger perceived size of the
picture objects.
Shapes. It is an element in painting that helps
express ideas. It helps to interact, and independently
evoke agitation, purposeful energy, direction. etc.
They maybe circles, rectangles, ovals, or square. It is
an area with defined boundary created by a variety
of color, value or texture of the areas adjacent to it.
Symbols. The Artists often include symbolic objects
in their paintings that have a special meaning or a
special message. It is used to express ideas such as
death, hope, life, etc.
 The Color Wheel and its Categories
Colors play a fundamental role in
our lives and how we respond to our
environment. It is the visual perceptual
property corresponding in humans to the
categories called blue, green, red, and
others. It has two main types, warm and
cool colors.
Significantly, a color wheel (also
known as a color circle) is a visual
representation of color arranged based to
their chromatic relationship. It is a circle
shape that is divided evenly into 12
segments which display different color
according to its pigment value. It also shows
the relationship between the primary colors,
secondary colors, and complementary
colors. Other colors can also be categorized
based on the following:
Complementary Colors. These colors sit contrary to each other on the color wheel.
Because they are opposites, they tend to look lively when used together. When you
put complementary colors together, each color seems more noticeable. Examples of
these colors are red and green.

Analogous Colors. These colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend
to look pleasant together because they are closely related. Orange, yellow-orange,
and yellow are an example of analogous colors.

Neutral Colors. They are sometimes called "earth tones. These colors don't usually
show up on the color wheel. Neutral colors include black, white, gray, and
occasionally brown and beige.

Warm Colors. These colors are made with orange, red, yellow or some combination
of these. Colors of the sunset give a feeling of brightness and heat.

Cool Colors. These colors are made with blue, green, purple or some combination of
these. These colors make you think of cool and peaceful things, like winter skies and
still ponds.
 Symbolism and Meaning of
Primary Colors
Red Color. This is noted as the warmest of all types of
colors. It is most chosen by extroverts and one of the
top choices among males. It is a color which is
associated with fiery heat and warmth and has strong
symbolism about life and vitality. It is also essential to
human life because:
• It increases enthusiasm and interest
• It gives more energy.
• It reinforces action and confidence.
• It protects us from fears and anxieties.
Blue Color. This is known as the calmest color like
that of the sky and ocean. It is the color of
inspiration, sincerity, and spirituality and often the
chosen color by conservative people. This color is
important to human life because:
• It is a sign of calmness and relaxation.
• It opens the flow of communication.
• It broadens our perspective in learning new
information.
• It implies solitude and peace.
Yellow Color. This is considered as the easiest color
to recognize. It is symbol creativity and intellectual
vitality. It also symbolizes wisdom, happiness and
brings awareness and clarity.
The yellow color is vital to human life because:
• It helps us in making decisions.
• It relieves us from burnout, panic, nervousness,
exhaustion.
• It sharpens our memory and concentration skills.
• It protects us from depression.