Elements of Art
a mark on a surface usually created by a pen, pencil, or brush.
What is line.
Repeated colors, lines or shapes, forms or textures in an artwork.
What is Pattern.
The space that a form or shape occupies in an artwork.
What is Positive Space.
The family of colors that includes reds, yellows and oranges.
What are Warm Colors
a “freeform” shape that is irregular and uneven, such as the shape of a leaf, flower, or cloud.
What is Organic Shape
the basic parts and symbols of an artwork.
What are the Elements of Art
the quality of seeming whole and complete, with all parts looking right together.
What is Unity.
the area around, above, between, inside, or below objects.
What is Space
Another word for color.
What is Hue.
a three-dimensional object such as a cube or ball, or the representation of a three-dimensional object, defined by contour, height, depth and width.
What is Form.
the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is Value
Guidelines that artists use to organize the elements of art in a composition.
What are Principles of Art
Two or more straight lines or edges that are the same distance apart along their whole length.
What are Parallel Lines
colors that contrast with one another. Colors that are opposite one another on the color wheel.
What are complimentary colors.
a two-dimensional area created by visually connected actual or implied lines.
What is Shape.
The way something feels to the touch.
What is texture.
Importance given to certain objects or areas in an artwork.
What is Emphasis
The empty space around and between forms or shapes in an artwork.
What is negative Space.
the family of colors that includes, greens, blues, and violets.
What are cool colors
A Form such as a sphere, cube or pyramid, whose contours represent a circle, triangle or square respectively.
What is Geometric Form.
The visual quality of objects caused by the amount of light reflected by them.
What is color.
the repetition of elements, such as lines, shapes or colors, that creates a feeling of visual motion in an artwork. In music it refers to the pattern of a melody.
What is Rhythm.
Lines that are not real, but suggested by placement of other lines, shapes or colors.
What are Implied Lines
A color scheme that uses different values of the same hue by showing tints and shades of the same hue.
What is Monochromatic.
a “freeform” which has irregular and uneven edges and is often found in nature, such as an apple, a tree, or an animal.
What is Organic Form.
The arrangement of the parts of an artwork to give a sense of overall equality in visual weight. can be symmetrical or asymmetrical or radial.
What is Balance
a drawing technique in which artists move a drawing medium, such as pencil, quickly and freely over a surface to capture form and actions of a subject.
What is Gesture Drawing
refers to the light and dark values used in rendering a realistic object.
what is tone.
Relating to abstract Art.
What is non-Objective