Elements of Art
Principles of Art
Color
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
a series of dots connected together. It can go on forever or cut into segments. Examples are zig zag, wavy, spiral or straight.
What is a line?
100

when shapes, lines or colors are repeated over and over

What is a pattern?

100

Green, Purple, Blue

What are cool colors?

100

The materials an artist uses to create their art such as paint, clay, ink.

What is medium?

100

a horizantal line that separates the sky from the ground.

What is the horizon line?

200
triangles, squares, hearts, moon. These can be geometric or free form
What is a shape?
200

different parts of an art work are arranged to seem equally important

What is balance?

200
Orange, Green, Purple
What are secondary colors?
200

Art that depicts life as it really looks

What is realistic art?

200

using a light pencil line so you can easily erase to begin a drawing

What is sketching?

300

a medium used to create pottery

What is clay?

300

the canvas or paper is placed in a vertical position for the painting

What is a portrait?

300

yellow and blue mixed together

What id green?

300
Three dimensional art
What is sculpture?
300

a pcture that represents a word

What is a symbol?

400
cube, cone, pyramid. Three dimensional shapes that can be used in sculptures.
What is a form?
400

something has width, heigth and depth

What is 3D or 3 dimensional?

400

One color plus  white

What is a tint?

400
a picture of land
What is landscape?
400

a picture of a person

What is a portrait?

500
The lightness or darkness of a color
What is value?
500

soft, bumpy, rough, smooth

What is texture?

500

Opposite colors on the color wheel. like yellow and purple that contrast each other.

What are complementary colors?

500
a picture of found objects
What is a still life?
500

square, triangle, hexagon, circle

What are geometric forms?

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