Design Principles
Design principles are time proven concepts that help an artist compose the elements of art, as a cook combines ingredients.
Cooking in the Kitchen
A recipe contains a list of ingredients and instructions on how to combine the ingredients in order to get the desired outcome. The ingredients are important, but how, in what order, and what proportions determines the final outcome.
Composing in the Art Studio
Design principles are concepts that an artist uses to combine the design elements in ways that will be pleasing to the eye and communicate effectively. The combining of design elements and principles is called composition.
The artist will use the design principles of dominate and subordinate, repetition with variation, and balance more than any others.
However, they will always use other principles which includes: focal point, rhythm, proportion, economy, proximity, unity, overlapping shapes, contrast, lost and found, and negative and positive space.
