Color Theory
Red, yellow, and blue
What are the primary colors
The point on the horizon line to where lines converge.
What is a vanishing point?
A moving point through space that leaves a visible path behind it.
What is line?
When you use a series of repeated strokes that produce clustered, straight lines that result in value.
What is hatching?
The color group you get when you add white to a hue.
What are tints?
Orange, Green, and purple
What are the secondary colors
The division of where the surface of the earth and sky meet.
What is a horizon line?
How rugged the surface looks or feels.
What is texture?
Any material used to make art with.
What is a medium?
A medium that is made from pigments and a binder.
What is paint?
Yellow-orange, red-purple, and blue-green
What are some tertiary colors
A way of creating the illusion of form and space using a formula based on the vanishing point(s).
What is linear perspective?
Hues.
What are colors on the color wheel called?
A way of creating the illusion of form and space using a formula based on the vanishing point(s).
What is value?
The process by which we observe and construct feedback for other artists.
What is a critique?
Opposites on the color wheel
What are complimentary colors?
The part of the picture that is far away or behind the subject of a work of art.
What is the background?
How far back the picture appears to go, and how much area each piece takes up.
What is space?
A type of line that traces the outer edges of a form.
What is a contour line (or drawing).
This word helps describe how bright a hue is, or how dull it is.
What is intensity?
These colors are side-by-side, or "gang", on the color wheel
What are analogous colors?
When images are layered in front of and behind each other to create depth.
What is overlapping?
Mandalas have this type of symmetry.
What is rotational (or radial) symmetry.
A way of shading that uses many small dots to create value.
What is stippling?
The color group you get when you mix complimentary colors together.
What are neutrals?