Principles of Design
The principle of design that refers to when something is repeated, but also varied to make an artwork more visually interesting.
Repetition & Variation
The 3 colors that cannot be made by mixing other colors together.
The primary colors: red, yellow, and blue.
This term refers to how light or dark something is.
Value
This principle of design refers to when an artwork is divided in half and a feeling of balance is apparent, but with unequal mass amounts on either side.
Asymmetrical Balance
This is the most important subject matter in school.
Art
This principle of design refers to when you divide an artwork in half and each part has equal or fairly equal masses.
Symmetrical Balance
The type of color created by mixing two primary colors together.
Secondary color
This term refers to the size, angle, and position of something.
Proportion
This principle of design refers to when some part of an artwork is substantially exaggerated in how large or small it is.
Proportion
Mr. Hobbs has this many kids.
3
This principle of design refers to when one part stands out from among the other elements within in the artwork.
Dominate & Subordinate
The type of color created by mixing a primary and secondary color together.
Tertiary color
This term refers to value transitions.
Edges
This principle of design refers to utilizing strong value differences in an artwork.
Contrast
Turquoise is best described as this tertiary color.
Blue-green
This principle of design refers to when elements in an artwork have a feeling of organized movement.
Rhythm
Colors directly across from each other on the color wheel.
Complementary colors
The ink shading process which uses intersecting parallel lines.
Cross-hatching
This principle of design is used to help create the illusion of depth or to make things look more visually interesting.
Overlapping Shapes
This artist spotlighted in class is a purist plein air painter, meaning he does all of his painting outdoors on location.
Aaron Cordell Johnson
This principle of design refers to when an artwork has the background broken up into a variety of sizes.
Positive & Negative Space
The term that refers to how vibrant a color is.
Saturation
This drawing method utilizes vertical and horizontal lines drawn on both the reference and the drawing to help check for alignment and accurate proportions.
Plumb Lines
This term is used to refer to Line, Shape, Form, Value, Texture, Color, and Space.
Elements of Design
Tony Orrico's work would likely be categorized as what type of artwork?
Contemporary or Conceptual