7 ELEMENTS OF

VISUAL ART

What is Element?

- It’s a particular part of something.

- A part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristics.

-refers to a point moving at an identifiable

path.

LINES - it has length and direction

- it is one dimensional

- is a shape that has 3 Dimensional (3D) 

- Form has HEIGHT, WIDTH and DEPTH-

which is the 3rd dimension.

- Depth shows the thickness of the

FORMS
object.

- FORMS are NOT flat like shapes are!

§ It is a property of light 
 § It gives life to an artwork

§ It expresses emotions

§ Can add interest and reality to artwork. The use of 12-

step color wheel will help us understand

color more effectively.

COLORS
§ When light is reflected through prism ,colors can be

seen.

§ These colors are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue,

Indigo, and Violet or the ROYGBIV

Ø Red, Orange, Yellow are the warm colors

Ø Blue, Blue - green, Blue-violet are the cool colors.

§ Hue – It refers to the color itself

- is also a way of showing space 

in a work or art.

- Is when the artist uses a

vanishing point on the horizon
PERSPECTIVE and then create a sense or deep

space by showing objects

getting progressively smaller as
they get close to the vanishing
point

- refers to the lightness and 

darkness of a color

- is commonly known as shading

VALUE of an object

- to make a drawing look as real

as possible must show a full

value range is n the artwork.


TEXTURE - is the way the surface of an object
actually feels.

- refers to distance or areas 

around, between or within
components of a piece.

- Space can be POSITIVE (white

or light) or NEGATIVE (black or
SPACE dark), open or closed,

shallow or deep and two

dimensional or three
dimensional.