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Principles of Design: Dominance and Emphasis

FacebookTwitterPinterest  In many dynamic designs and artworks, one dominant aspect is the first to claim your attention. Known as a focal point, it provides you with a way to access the page or the canvas. Once you are “in,” you can look around, making instinctual connections between pieces to get

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Sneaky, Sneaky What Did You Just Say to Me?

FacebookTwitterPinterest In logical arguments, claims come in neutral forms – without the “bells and whistles” that evoke our emotions. When persuasive strategies are used to mix in language containing emotive force, language which suggests something without outright saying it, or language that is vague, we are no longer considering a

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Don’t Fall for That Fallacy, Part Two

FacebookTwitterPinterestA fallacy is a mistake in reasoning that is often accidental. However, sometimes people use faulty logic on purpose to fool others. Protect yourself from being duped by finding out as much as possible about the different types of fallacies, including those below. Ad Hominem Fallacy: Says Who? Someone committing

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Principles of Design: Balance

FacebookTwitterPinterestSince the ability to balance is essential to navigating a gravity-bound world, humans naturally seek balance. It is an instinctual way to bring order to existence. Balance, like unity, is a quality that you instinctively look for and recognize when you view a design or a work of art. A

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Line: Elements of Design for Kids

FacebookTwitterPinterestLine as a Design Element + Upcycled Art Project In math, a line is always solid and straight and a line always goes on and on in both directions. Artistic lines are different — they can be straight, bent, dashed, and have a cool paint brush  texture to them. They don’t have to go on and on

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Deductive Versus Inductive Reasoning

FacebookTwitterPinterestReasoning can be an effective way to convince someone. You probably reason with others every day. For example, you may have to persuade your brother to share the last few sips of his strawberry milkshake. Two kinds of reasoning, deductive and inductive, illustrate why some methods of persuasion are more

Art for Kids: Fun Art Projects

The Rule of Thirds: A Gridded Guide

FacebookTwitterPinterestThe Rule of Thirds is a compositional guideline to use when taking photographs, shooting a video, creating artwork or designing graphics. To apply the rule, you divide the scene into nine equal squares, drawing three evenly spaced horizontal lines and three evenly spaced vertical lines to form a grid. According