Find a window near you and stand in front of it. Look out the window. What do you see? You can also imagine the view from a window at your home. What elements or principles of design would you need to use if you were going to paint or draw what you see through the window?

Texture. Texture in art stimulates the senses of sight and touch and refers to the tactile quality of the surface of the art. It is based on the perceived texture of the canvas or surface, which includes the application of the paint. In the context of artwork, there are two types of texture: visual and actual.

Lines are a great way to guide the viewer's attention to different areas around the picture. Think of tree branches, tall grasses, roof edges, landscape variations, value shifts, they all create lines that guide the eye around the painting.

romare bearden worked with many types of media which includes cartoons, oils and collages. basically, the use of collage him create emotionally affecting images hence back then he had struggled with his two artistic sides as a student of literature and of artistic traditions and being a black human being which involves very real experiences, fugrative and concrete.thus through the use of collage expressed or showed how his art/work became more representational and more overtly socially concious. he showed how not only were african-american rights moving forward but so was his socially concious art and by then his works became generally considered as best works in 1964.