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Art & music · Grades 3–7

Visual composition and looking carefully

Name visible features such as line, shape, value, texture and placement.

Make a worksheet

Understand the idea

Describe before judging

Name visible features such as line, shape, value, texture and placement.

Relate choices to effect

A design choice can direct attention or create contrast.

Allow multiple solutions

Creative tasks use a rubric rather than one fixed answer.

Worked examples

Which term describes the lightness or darkness of a colour?

Value concerns light and dark.

value

Which choice can create visual contrast?

Contrasting values distinguish areas.

placing a light shape beside a dark shape

Try it yourself

  1. Describe one way to make a small object the focal point of a drawing.

  2. Texture in visual art concerns

    1. the number of viewers
    2. the actual or suggested surface quality
    3. only the work's price
    4. the title's length

  3. Create a written plan for a pattern using two shapes and a repeating rule.

  4. Which is a description rather than a value judgement?

    1. Three curved lines surround the central circle.
    2. This is the best picture.
    3. The artist is perfect.
    4. Nobody could dislike this.

Answers and marking notes

Answers and marking notes
  1. Use contrast, placement, surrounding space or directional lines to draw attention to it.

    Credit a purposeful technique with an explanation.

  2. the actual or suggested surface quality

    Texture may be tactile or visually implied.

  3. For example: two circles followed by one square, repeated across the row.

    Mark for a clear repeat unit and consistent application.

  4. Three curved lines surround the central circle.

    It identifies visible features without ranking them.

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