Starts with explaining visual elements, goes through design principles, balance, visual effects, and more. Teaching tips included too.

These are the lecture notes from a course on visual communication that uses Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." This PowerPoint outline (in PDF format) identifies the key points in chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 4 looks at the...

Every aspect of working with color in visual art can be found on this page. Comprehensive information ranging from value to color interaction.

Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...

Students will learn the basic concepts necessary to produce beautiful, professional looking visual compositions (which can then be used in professional television productions). 2nd of 3 lessons.

Interactive activity explaining the principle of rhythm as it applies to visual art.

This online, interactive environment for music creation and exploration includes games and puzzles and interesting activities that teach about music in a visual way.

In this arts integrated unit, 3rd graders will explore Rocks and Soil. These projects focus on bringing multiple art forms to the Earth Sciences for third graders. Students will focus on comparing and contrasting the 3 types of rocks, as...

The term composition, used in art, is defined.

Site offers a detailed explanation of the compostion of functions

Short, but descriptive summary on hydrogen. Discusses this element's composition and characteristics, and includes a graphic as well.

A site dedicated to providing vocabulary for the elements of visual design. Includes a visual notation system for describing both the elements and attributes of art.

Students learn how using a spectrograph helps us understand the composition of light sources. Using simple materials and holographic diffraction gratings (available online at a variety of sites, including Edmund Scientifics and the...

An in-depth look at the structure and composition of Earth's mantle, with lots of visuals. Covers lithosphere, Mohorovicic discontinuity, asthenosphere, transition zone, lower mantle, the d double-prime region, mantle convection, mantle...

For over 63 years POI has offered photographers to submit their images to be judged on an international level. It also provides an archive of incredible images for all to see.

A PowerPoint presentation on how to communicate a message using image, video, and sound techniques as described by Herbert Zettl. Includes images and links to video examples.

A gallery of artwork created by Masha Averina, a young Russian artist who works principally in gouache and watercolor. Some images are accompanied by excerpts from the literary sources that inspired the work, making this an excellent...

ibiblio.com provides many examples of Kandinsky's work. You can click on the pictures to enlarge them. This site also includes a biography of Kandinsky.

An informative site explaining the attributes of art as well as other art terms.