Formline is a Pacific NW Native American art style. Using a pre-defined set of shapes the artist used these to create the design. Each shape helps move the design along by adding flow, directional movement energy, and contrast. These are some of the most common shapes associated with the formline style. For starters, the bread loaf looking shape at the top left is the king shape in formline. This shape is called an “Ovoid”. The Ovoid is one of the Key base shape that other shapes go off. Other Key shapes are the “Trigons”, these are the sucked in a triangle shape on...