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The design of a painting is its visual format: the arrangement of its colors, lines, shapes, tones, and textures into an expressive pattern. It is the sense of inevitability in this formal organization that gives a great painting its self-sufficiency and presence.

Each of the our design elements has special expressive qualities.  The colors and placing of the principal images in a design may be sometimes largely decided by representational and symbolic considerations. Yet it is the formal interplay of colors and shapes that alone is capable of communicating a particular mood, producing optical sensations of space, volume, movement, and light and creating forces of both harmony and tension, even when a painting’s narrative symbolism is obscure.

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Shapes

Shape and mass, as elements of design, include all areas of different color, tone, and texture, as well as individual and grouped images.

A square or a circle will tend to dominate a design.

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Texture

As an element of design, texture includes all areas of a painting enriched or animated by vibrating patterns of lines, shapes, tones, and colors, in addition to the tactile textures created by the plastic qualities of certain mediums.

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Color

In many styles and periods of painting, the functions of color are primarily decorative and descriptive, often serving merely to reinforce the expression of an idea or subject communicated essentially in terms of line and tone.

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Line

Line is an intuitive, primeval convention for representing things. A linear design is composed of all of the edges of tone and color masses, of the axial directions of images, and of the lines that are implied by alignments of shapes across the picture. 

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Terry Ann Burks

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Terry Burks is an artist and vocalist residing in Howard County, Maryland since 1971.  She enjoys art as a hobby rather than a profession and visualizes art in decorative forms such as painting, floral arrangements, photography and a variety of crafts.  Terry appreciates the form and message that her art represents and takes joy in creating pieces that can be looked at, touched and utilized.  She takes pleasure in conducting home shows and sharing her art with friends, family and the public.
 
Her parents have played a significant role in shaping Terry’s artistic talents and both instilled their creative qualities in her.  Terry’s late father was a vocal and instrumental musician and her mother worked as an educator and motivational speaker.  They each inspired Terry to use her hands, visualization and imagination to create art as her gift and blessing.
 
Terry performs as a vocalist and soloist with the Columbia Baptist Fellowship Choir.  Her customized wreaths, floral cakes and home ornaments can be seen displayed in many local homes.  Terry’s hats, broaches and fascinators are worn by many of her friends and family members in the Howard County region and beyond. 

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