Just had to begin with that old language joke...perhaps the social isolation is getting to me.  :-)

We've talked about color and value. I thought I'd cap this little series with a post about line. By "lines in art", I mean anything close to a line. It doesn't have to be straight, it just has to lead the eye and not devolve into a shape too quickly. 

And right there you have the importance of line, it leads the eye. There are other ways of leading the eye, but lines, with their graphical nature, tend to be the strongest in this category.

Personally I find line entrancing, I love the graphic in art and how it plays with our eyes and minds. Line can tell the eye, move up in a swirly fashion...

In the above picture, the lines pull the eye upward in that "swirly fashion" (technical term) and in so doing tell the mind..."it's windy" or "there is a pathway to follow here" or even "those things at the top are farther away".

It starts so simple, just a line, but then it builds and the drama brings an image before us. In the example below, lines bring the eye up and then gently lead it back down (but your eye might just read that as sun rays cascading down):

Art is magical. Thanks for sharing the journey with me. If you enjoy these posts, please consider telling your friends, the more the merrier!