Last week we began our study of the Elements of Art. We did crayon rubbings with which the students demonstrated their understanding of the six elements. Most of these elements are fairly self-explanatory (colour, shape, line, form) but as an FYI – ‘texture’ is how something feels or ‘looks’ like it feels, and ‘value’ is the lightness or darkness of something. Value can be with colours or non-colours (black, white, and grey). The difference between ‘shape’ and ‘form’ is the dimensionality – e.g. a 2-D shape drawn on the board is a ‘shape’ but as I can’t pick it up off the board it has no ‘form’.
Here are some of the crayon rubbings:
