Elements of Art

I have seen a few projects with learning and remembering the elements of art but this would have to be my favourite....

Work from grade 7 student.

The students were told to stand up, hold your pencil and shut your eyes. At this point, I love the atmosphere in the classroom. These kids live for something out of the ordinary.
They are allowed to feel the corner of the page with their fingers and hold the page in place with their other hand. That's all.
I put one minute on the stop watch.
'Okay when I say go I want you to draw big sweeping lines across your page. Don't try to make it look like anything just draw.'
For that one minute there was absolute freedom in the classroom. It was wonderful.
Anyway that is how we have come to our outline.

Each box represents a different element. This assignment was produced alongside art terminology and understanding the elements.


You can easily see colour, line, tone and texture. Space was supposed to show negative/positive space and 3 dinmenional space (bottom, second to right). Shape is bottom second to left.

Work from grade 7 student.