principles of design

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ACTIVITY #1: WHAT’S NEW

DIRECTION: Analyze the image at the center, then answer the

questions provided in each quadrant. Write your answer in your test

notebook. Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night

1889

Oil Paint

DESCRIPTION ANALYSIS

INTERPRETATION JUDGEMENT

Description: Analysis

1. What are the things do you see 1. What elements of arts were used by
the artists?
in the artwork?
2. Which among the principles of design
2. Describe each of the things seen were used by the artist? Did he use unity
in the artwork. and variety, repetition and rhythm,

balance, contrast, scale and proportion

or emphasis and subordination?

Interpretation Judgement

1. What do you think does Vincent 1. Is this piece of artwork worthy
Van Gogh wants to imply in his
artwork? of appreciation? Why? Why not?
2. Is the title “Starry Night” 2. How is Vincent Van Gogh as an
appropriate to the image? Why? artist?

• The word design indicates both the
process of organizing visual elements
and the product of that process. It is a
result of our basic need for meaningful
order.

Art and beauty can be expressed in

many ways- in natural beauty of huge

old trees or in the created beauty of a

painting of those trees like in the work

of Van Gogh “Large Plane Trees”.

UNITY AND VARIETY REPETITION
EMPHASIS BALANCE
CONTRAST PROPORTION

UNITY AND VARIETY

The feeling of harmony
between all parts of the
composition creating a sense
of completeness

Uses several elements such as:
✔ line
✔ color
✔ texture, and others

Varying elements and objects
in your image, to avoid making
them boring. 

UNITY AND VARIETY The visual themes were
established with the use of lines,
Going Home, Jacob Lawrence shapes, and colors. The many
figures and the objects in the
complex compositions of
Lawrence formed a unified
design through the artist’s
skillful use of abstraction,
theme, and variation.

UNITY AND VARIETY

Wassily Kandinsky - Several Circles

Several Cirlcles, Wassily Kandinsky

BALANCE

•Balance is the condition in which acting influences are
held in check by opposing forces or what is in the left
side should appear on the right side also in order to
achieve equilibrium.

•The near or exact matching of left and right sides of a
three-dimensional form or a two-dimensional
composition is called SYMMETRICAL BALANCE. Two
sides which are not the same is ASYMMETRICAL
BALANCE.

- A symmetrical balance can

be seen on the wheels of the

chariot in Giacometti’s

bronze, where the slim figure

that serves as a vertical

attached on an elevation.

- On the other hand,

Haranobu’s figures on a

woodblock print,

asymmetrical balance was

achieved with one figure

sitting and the other

standing. Both heads of the

figure bends to the center.

EMPHASIS

• It is the part of the design that
catches the viewer’s attention.
Usually the artist will make one
area stand out by contrasting it
with other areas.
• Neutral areas of lesser interest are
created by artist through
subordination to keep us from
being distracted from the areas of
emphasis.

Deer in the Forest, Franz Marc

•Subordination is defined

as minimizing or toning down

other compositional

elements in order to bring

attention to the focal point.

Yacht approaching the Coast,
Joseph mallord William Turner

CONTRAST

• As a principle of art, contrast refers to the
arrangement of opposite elements and
effects. For example, light and dark colors,
smooth and rough textures, large and
small shapes. Contrast can be used to
create variety, visual interest, and drama in
an artwork.

In this example of contrast in art, Caravaggio
created a scene of action and energy by
contrasting both light/dark and directional lines.

Crucifixion of St. Peter, Caravaggio

CONTRAST

REPETITION & RHYTHM

• The repetition of visual elements gives
a composition of unity, continuity, flow,
and emphasis. Rhythm in the visual art,
is created through the regular
recurrence of elements with related
variations.
• Repeating visual elements such as line,
color, shape, texture, value or image

•

Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan
Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)

REPETITION & RHYTHM

PROPORTION

• The relationship of two or more

elements in a design and how they
compare with one another.

•Proportion is the size relationship
of parts to a whole.

ASSESSMENT TIME!

Materials: Oslo Paper, Color Pastel, Crayons, Water Color, Acrylic paint/ any
paint available

Procedure:

1. Look around and observe the people around you: your friends,
your family and your neighbor or the nature.

2. Describe them through a drawing or painting applying the
principles of design based on what you see in their faces or actions
as they exercise the freedom of expression in their daily lives.

3. Do this in an Oslo paper. You may use crayons, color pastel,
water color, acrylic paint or any available resources that you have.

LINE VALUE
SHAPE COLOR
SPACE TEXTURE

FORM

LINE SPACE

a mark made by a point the area around, above,
moving across a surface between, inside or below an
object

SHAPE MATHEMATICAL OR
GEOMETRIC SHAPES
an area that has height and width

CREATIVE/ORGANIC
SHAPES

COLOR OR HUE COLOR WHEEL

caused by differing qualities of shows
light being reflected. relationships
between colors
PRIMARY COLORS

-red, yellow and blue

SECONDARY COLORS

colors made by mixing 2
primary colors together
-orange green and violet

TERTIARY/INTERMEDIATE COLORS

colors made by mixing primary and
secondary colors together
-red-orange, yellow-green,
blue-green, and red-violet

VALUE TEXTURE

-the lightness and darkness of the way something feels or
a color looks like it feels
-scale of white to black

FORM

has height, width and depth

ACTIVITY TIME!

Directions: Identify the elements of art that is described
in each item. Write your answer in your test notebook.

1. This tends to be precise and regular in shape.
2. The visual arts are sometimes referred as this because most of
the art forms are organized in space.
3. They always seem to be moving, and we follow them with our
fingers, our gestures, or our eyes.
4. It refers to the lightness and darkness from white through grays
to black.
5. Objects appear smaller at a distance because parallel lines
appear to converge as they recede into the distance.

6. Artist’s use this element to heighten the emotional
impact.

7. The last meeting of the lines on the horizon.

8. A particular wavelength of spectral color.

9. The mixture of two primary hues.

10. The physical bulk of a solid body of material and a
three-dimensional area.