MEET OUR ARTIST
Terry Ann Burks
We Are Your Favorite,
Online Store.
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.
01.
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.
02.
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.
03.
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.
04.
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.