Art Element Mood Boards

This week in art class the Year 6 students worked in small groups with the art iPads to create Art Element mood boards.

Each group was given an art element which they had to individually write down key words that they associated with that element (eg. Texture = soft, rough, bumpy) and where that element may occur around the school (eg. chickens - soft feathers). The students collaborated their ideas and together decided on a final shot list of the photos and locations that they planned to visit. The groups heading out around the school to capture the perfect art element photographs.

After 20 minutes the groups returned to the Art Room to sort through and analysis their photographs, deciding on their favourites that best represent the element. The students used PicCollage app to create a mood board.


The following words were added to the Art Room Word Wall for future reference:

Mood board	A mood board is an arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, etc. intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept.
Art elements	The elements of art are the building blocks of all art. Every piece of art ever created includes one or more of these elements. The seven art elements are line, colour, shape, texture, space, value and form.
Colour	Colour is made up of three properties: hue, value and intensity. Hue: name of colour Value: hue’s lightness and darkness Intensity: quality of brightness and purity (high intensity= colour is strong and bright, low intensity= colour is faint and dull)
Shape	Shapes are flat and can only have height and width. The two different categories of shapes are geometric and organic. Geometric shapes are mathematical, like circles and squares. Organics shapes come from nature, like clouds and leaves.
Line	Line refers to the continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point to define a space where its length is greater than its width. There are many different types of lines, such as straight, curvy, zig-zagged.
Texture	Texture refers to the way things feel, or look as if they might feel if touched.
Space	Space deals with the illusion of depth on a flat surface. You might overlap shapes to make some look closer, or make objects in the distance smaller to look like they are further away.
Value	Value refers to the lightness and darkness areas in an artwork. White is the lightest value and black is the darkest.
Form	Form is the three-dimensional version of a shape; it includes height, width and depth. An artwork that has the art element of form can be viewed from different angles, and is not flat.

Here are some of the Year 6 students Art Element Mood Boards, created using PicCollage....

Texture 

Line

Colour 

Shape