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ART in Picture Books

ART in Picture Books. How Pictures Provide Information About Stories. FORMAT. Format: physical qualities of the book (size, shape, kind of paper, covers, design) OUTSIDE THE BOOK: Covers - most significant source of our expectations for a book INSIDE THE BOOK:

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ART in Picture Books

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  1. ART in Picture Books How Pictures Provide Information About Stories

  2. FORMAT Format: physical qualities of the book (size, shape, kind of paper, covers, design) • OUTSIDE THE BOOK: • Covers - most significant source of our expectations for a book • INSIDE THE BOOK: • Design - borders, type, placement

  3. Mood • Mood - an overall quality that affects the meaning and attitude we take towards a book. • Mood may be conveyed through: • Color, Shape and Line, Media • Style, Visual Objects, Pictoral Dynamics • Movement and Time

  4. Color : Hue

  5. Color : Shades Brightness and Darkness

  6. Color : Saturation Intensity of Color

  7. Color : Presence and Absence of Color Black ---- White

  8. Color : Creating/Evoking Mood

  9. Shape and Line

  10. Texture Surface feel or illusion of surface feel

  11. Color, Shape, Line, Texture

  12. Media Painting Pencil Pen and Ink Chalk Paper Craft Wood Cut & Block Print Scratchboard Photography Computer Generated Mixed Media

  13. Style is developed by various choices an artist makes about the subject and a means of presenting the subject Cartoonish Representational Humorous Surrealistic Impressionistic National Individual Artists’ Style

  14. Visual Objects • Symbols • Freudian • Codes and Gestures

  15. Two-Dimensional Shape Size Composition Glance curve Three-Dimensional Perspective Point of View Focus Overlap Light/Shadow Sources Blocking Pictoral Dynamics

  16. Movement and Time • Incomplete actions • Linear continuance • Distortion • Left-to-Right movement • Continuous narrative • Context • Context of other pictures

  17. Principles of Design • Rhythm • Movement • Balance • Proportion • Variety / Contrast • Emphasis • Unity

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