Lesson Summary

When we visit a host country, it helps to know that country’s language. So it is with art. As we both create art and analyze art, the common language of the Principles of Design and the Elements of Art help us to better understand what an artist is communicating. Furthermore, this common language of art, helps us to create our inner visions as artists. This lesson reviewed some of the basics of the Principles of Design, such a visual movement, linear movement, regular, irregular rhythm, pattern, depth, and perspective.

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The Elements of Art and the Principles of Design, are the crux of the fundamental approaches to both creating art and analyzing art. This lesson provided a more in-depth look at the Principles of Design so that you, as an artist, could apply and practice some of these techniques.

This lesson also explored and defined specific media and some of the process of both selecting and using various pencils, crayons, paper, etc. Media can, of course, encompass a much broader range of materials, including the materials and related methods that artists employ to translate their unique visions onto sketchpads, canvases and computer screens. Thus, this lesson offered a discussion of the links between the Principles of Design and the types of media selected. Many of the activities in this lesson are designed for you to practice the Principles of Art and select the media you feel best fit the expression of those principles. This process will also afford you a richer opportunity to understand other artists’ works!

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