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Elements and Principles of Design

Elements

Line: linear marks made with a pen or brush. OR the edge created when two shapes meet.

Shape:a self-contained defined area of geometric or organic form. A positive shape in a painting automatically creates a negative shape.

Direction: All lines have direction (horizontal, vertical, or oblique). Horizontal suggests calmness, vertical gives balance and formality, and oblique suggests movement and action.

Size: the relationship of the area occupied by one shape to that of another.

Texture: surface quality of a shape (rough, smooth, glossy, and so on), it can be visual or tactile.

Color (Hue): combinations of color can be used to create focus, balance, harmony, and mood

Value (Tone): the lightness or darkness of a color.

Principles

Balance: similar to balance in physics, large shapes in the center are balanced by smaller ones near the edge, and dark is balanced with light.

Gradation: of size and direction creates linear perspective, of warm to cool and dark to light creates an areal perspective. It can add interest and movement to a shape.

Repetition: to create interest, any repeating element should have a degree of variation. 

Contrast: the juxtaposition of opposing elements, major contrast often creates a focal point.

Harmony: the visually satisfying effect of combining similar and related elements.

Dominance: creates emphasis or an area of focus by having one area stand out.

Unity: relating the elements of design to the idea being expressed.

Illustrator

 The artist I chose was Marion Bolognesi. I chose her illustrations because we have a similar fixation, eyes. Her paintings focus on the emotional intensity a person can show throw just their eyes. Another aspect of her work that I love is the dripping of paint. All of her works have this, which I equate to some sort of sorrow or suffering like the face is crying or melting. In all of her works the eyes just pull you in.

The artwork I created was a more solidified version of her work. A lot of her pieces have a lot of white space in which  there would typically have been a lighter or middle tone. With my piece I made it a bit more  opaque and I used a lot more skin tones than she usually does.  I love her use of cool colors and layering so I tried to incorporate that as well.