Elements
A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action.
What is movement?
Primary colours
What are red, blue and yellow?
Process of cutting magazine images, designs and other materials and gluing them down to another surface
What is collage?
Any three dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is form?
Negative and positive
What is space?
Secondary colours
What are orange, green and violet?
An easy exercise to help you develop your ability to recognise shapes and lines in a picture
What is upside-down drawing?
Smoothness, roughness, can be real or implied.
What is texture?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is emphasis/focal point?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this
What are tertiary colours?
A piece of stationery that is used for removing marks from paper.
What is an eraser?
Hue, value and intensity are the main characteristics of this.
What is colour?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together - the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?
Colours opposite on the colour wheel
What are complementary colours?
Artists' paint made with a water-soluble binder and thinned with water, giving a transparent colour.
What are water colours?
Lightness and darkness
What is tone?
This type of balance is uneven.
What is asymmetry/asymmetrical balance?
Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of...
What are analogous colours?
Art medium constructed of a narrow, pigmented core encased in a wooden cylindrical case, easily held in your hand
What is a coloured pencil?