THE SHAPE

SHAPE: It is the external appearance of an object or element in a image.

NATURAL SHAPES: They are the ones related to nature. They haven´t been created by any human.

ARTIFICIAL SHAPES: Shapes created by humans.

ORGANIC SHAPES/ FREE FORMS: Shapes have irregular silhouette as their inner surface. Organic shapes are usually natural even thougth they are sometimes artificial.

GEOMETRIC SHAPES: Shapes whose parts follow a mathemathic order, laws or pattern.

FLAT SHAPES: They have two dimensional such a paper sheet, a cinema screen or a canvas.  

FORM: They are volumetric shapes, they appear and are three-dimensional.

OUTLINE: It´s the contour of the shape.

SILHOUETTE: It is a shape filled up with a solid colour.

INFILL: The inner part of a shape.

THE COLOUR

COLOUR: It is a basic element of visual language. It is a light impression tht arrives to the eyes which send the information to the brain.

PRIMARY: RED     GREEN        BLUE V.

SECUNDARY:  CIAN        MAGENT         YELLOW

                  

PIGMENT: It's the natural objets to do a colour.

THE THREE PROPERTIES OF COLOUR.

HUE: Also called tone , it is the name of the colour defined by it's wavelenght.

SATURATION: Degree of purity of a colour is very saturated it means that it is very pure and doesn't have many colours in it's mix.

VALUE: Sometimes called brightness or luminosity. It's the amount of black or White that a colour has in it mix.

TEXTURE

TEXTURE: Is the visual and tactile quality of the surfaces due to the material.
TACTILE TEXTURES: Are those that can be percived through the sense of touch.
VISUAL TEXTURES: those which can only be percived through the sense of sight.
NATURAL TEXTURES: Those that can be found in nature.
ARTIFICIAL TEXTURES: Are those created by the human being manually or mechanically.
RUBBING TEXTURES: It consist on frictioning or rubbing a crayon or coloured pencil on a thin paper which is over a surface with a tactile texture so the texture gets copied on the paper.
SCRATCH BOARDING: It is usually done with waxed colours and it consists on giving two coats of colour to the media begin the second one darker. So when scratching over the first layer the second one shows up.

THE PLANE

PLANE: Also called shape in visual arts. It ´s a two-dimensional surfaces, height and width but not depth, it has a position and direction on the space.

THE PLANE 3-D CAPACITY: One of the main goals of the plane consist on creating volume when several flat shapes get together in different directions.

FLAT ORGANIC SHAPES: They follow natural principles and can take countless appearances.

FLAT GEOMETRIC SHAPES: They follow mathematical principles. In visual arts there are 3 main basic geometric shapes: circle, square and triangle.

MIME

DESCRIPTION

Tish mask expresses a feeling of sadness.The mask also has some drawings around the eyes, and on the forehead it has a wavy line to which it joins the rigth eye.
Then I made a two rectangles with the same mask paper . Then I glued them to the mask and tied a rope to both sides.

LINES

LINE

LINE: It can be defined as a dot in  movement. It has position and direction in the space and are of its principal function consists on marking the shapes outline. 

ZIG-ZAG OR BROKEN LINES: They are formed by several fragments of straight lines with differents directions.

WAVY LINES: they are formed by several fragments of curved lines. 

CURLY LINES: They hold more curves than wavy lines and show loops. 

SCRIBLE: Chaotic or meaningless lines that are traced randomly, usually in first stages of chilhood or to fill in some area with a particular texture .

HATCHING: It's a way of shading or giving tores to the areas of objects or surfaces with parallel lines.

CROSS-HATCHING: It is a way of shading areas of a drawing or surfaces with parallel lines in several directions.

DASHED (OR DOTTED) LINES:  They are lines which aren't continuous , formed by littel braces or dots.

BLURED: They are very soft or vanished so they are hard to see and opposite to intense and deep.





SIMPLE LINE:Those that are formed by only one line.















COMPOSITE LINES: They are lines composed by fragments of several ,straight and curved lines.

EXPRESSIVENESS OF LINES:

Vertical line expressivenes: the express an asscendent or descendent movement , despeding on how they are used 

Orizantal lines expressiveness: They produce visual feeling of stability and calmness or tranquility , but they can be monotone if they used to much.

Skew lines expressiveness: They produced unsteadiness and movement feelings . These feelings give inclined lines and sensation of dynamism.