It might be said that all art begins with a line. You see lines everywhere in your daily life. As you ride in a car along a highway, the edges of the road straight ahead of you form two lines that meet in the distance. The edge of each wall of your classroom is a line. So are the curves that make up the letter s.
To the artist, a lineis the path of a dot through space. In this lesson, you will learnabout different kinds of lines. You will seehow these lines can be used to suggest specificfeelings and ideas.
By definition, every line goes somewhere. A line may “travel” up, down, or across. It may move at an angle, or it may curve back on itself. Each type of line carries a different message to the viewer.
There are five main kinds of line: horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curved, and zigzag.
Horizontal lines run from side to side. Lines of this type seem to be at rest. They may suggest peace and quiet. Think of the line of a calm lake where the water meets the sky