Elements and Principles
A straight line that goes from left to right or right to left.
What is horizontal?
The lightness or darkness of an image.
What is value?
An artwork that may capture mountains, valleys, bodies of water, fields, forests, and coasts.
What is a landscape?
A picture or diagram made with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint.
What is a drawing?
A style of art that shows a person, thing, or situation that is accurate in a way that is true to real life.
What is realistic art?
These colors are often associated with fire, the sun, and heat.
What are warm colors?
The colors of night, water, nature, and usually are associated with calmness and relaxation.
What are cool colors?
A painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one showing only the face or head and shoulders.
What is a portrait?
The process or art of using paint in a picture.
What is painting?
Art that DOES NOT represent an accurate depiction of visual reality, instead communicating through lines, shapes, colours, and forms.
What is abstract art?
A flat figure or shape.
What is 2D?
Unlike 2D art, this kind takes up more physical space and can be viewed from all sides and angles.
What is 3D art?
Where sky separates from land or water.
The activity of making pictures or designs by printing them from specially prepared plates or blocks.
What is printmaking?
The work of art is the same on one side as the other, a mirror image of itself, on both sides of a center line.
What is symmetrical?
(Asymmetrical means the art is NOT the same on both sides. Radial means the art appears to be coming from one spot.)
The physical feel of something — smooth, rough, fuzzy, slimy, etc.
What is texture?
The use of two or more of the same elements such as colors, shapes, or lines.
What is repetition?
A work of art that depicts collections of objects, usually a bowl of fruit or a vase of flowers.
What is a still life?
An artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into 3D art objects.
What is sculpture?
The image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black.
What is a silhouette?
The subject or areas of interest in an artwork, such as a person's face or figure in a portrait, the objects in a still life painting, or the trees in a landscape painting.
(Hint: Negative space is the background or the area that surrounds the subject of the work.)
What is positive space?
A drawing method that shows how things appear to get smaller as they get further away, converging towards a single “vanishing point” on the horizon line.
What is one-point perspective?
What looks closest to you makes up the __________. The furthest element away from you is the __________. The ________ ground makes up the area in between.
What is foreground, background, and middle ground.
The technique of making artwork by gluing a wide range of materials - including pieces of paper, fabric, newspaper clippings, and sometimes readymade objects - to a surface.
What is a collage?
Pots and other articles made from clay hardened by heat.
What are ceramics?