7 Elements of Art - Part I

All art work contains the seven elements of art in some combination. 

The first mark made on your paper is usually some form of a line. It can be straight, curvy, thick, thin, zig zag, broken, vertical, horizontal...

The lines then take on some form of shape.  It can be defined like a circle or an organic free form shape.

Now the fun part:  color.  Colors or hues are found on a spectrum such as a color wheel. We have our primary: red, yellow, blue that mix together to give us secondary colors: orange, green and violet.  They can be warm: red, orange, yellow or cool: blue, green, violet.  They can compliment each other:  red/green, blue/orange, yellow/violet.  Color can set a mood.  Picasso went thru a depressed time and all his work was done in blues (known as his Blue Period).