Lines

Horizontal

Each photo above has elements of horizontal lines present. The wooden cottage and railing encasing the walkway that leads to it make horizontal lines. The closet door at the top right shows horizontal movement, the white fence that separates the grass from the beach is horizontal, and in the bottom picture taken on Long Lake in Michigan, the horizon created by the trees in the sunset is horizontal to the lake and the skyline.

Vertical

Something that all of the pictures above have in common is that they are all of a building of some sort. The walls, windows, doors, and overall framework of each of these structures is vertical.

Diagonal

In these examples of lines, the diagonal lines are successful in serving their purpose. Each line supports some sort of structure, or is what makes the object useful.

Organic

I think my favorite types of lines are organic lines because they go against what is normal. I find the pictures above really cool because they form something pleasing to the eye. The curve of the St. Louis arch, the sculpture of the spoon and cherry, the design on my Kavu bag, and the outline the sidewalk creates around the grass outside of the Student Learning Center all make me contemplate what I am looking at. When something stops and makes you think, it is successful.

Structural

The four pictures above are of buildings because they show structural lines best. The two beams in the top left picture support the ceiling in a library, the curved line in the top right makes up the structure of the St. Louis arch, the walls and arches in the building in the bottom right support the entire structure and the windows within the facade, and the columns in the front of the Student Learning Center support the roof of part of the building.

Implied

Implied lines are some of the most difficult lines for me to notice, but they exist everywhere. The road in the top left picture ends in this picture, but it is implied that the road keeps going. In the picture of St. Louis in the top right I can see implied lines on the exterior of some of the buildings, but also in the streets. There are lines and a median in the street, but they do not continue the full length of the street. We just know that those implied lines and median are what separate the different directions of traffic. In the pictures of the buildings at the bottom of the collage, we see implied lines that travel up the sides of both structures. Even though there may not be a clear/visible line, we can picture lines going up the exterior.