Colour
What are the three primary colours?
Red, blue, and yellow.
What do you call a line that goes up and down?
Vertical.
What is another name for value?
Tone.
Which element describes how something feels?
Texture.
How can you make shapes in art?
With lines, colours, space…
What are the three secondary colours?
Purple, green, and orange.
What do you call a line that goes across a surface?
Horizontal.
What are tints?
Lighter values (adding white to a colour).
2D art often has three “layers”. One is the background. What are the other two?
Foreground and mid-ground.
What are “geometric” shapes?
Straight, regular, look man-made.
What are the three warm colours?
Red, orange, and yellow.
What do you call a line made up of dashes?
Broken or non-continuous.
What are shades?
Darker values (adding black to a colour).
What principle is made by putting opposite things (like colours) next to each other?
Contrast.
What are “organic” shapes?
Curved, non-regular, look like ones found in nature.
Name three pairs of analogous colours.
Blue and green, red and orange, blue and purple…
What kind of line is used to draw a zipper or mountains?
Zig-zag.
What does value mean?
The lightness or darkness of a colour.
Which principle is made by repeating elements (like lines) over and over?
Texture.
What is the difference between shape and form?
Shapes are 2D and flat. Forms are 3D so can be seen from multiple angles.
Name three pairs of complementary colours.
Blue and orange, red and green, yellow and purple.
List five different words you could use to describe lines in art.
Thick, thin, heavy, light, soft, hard, straight, curved, broken, continuous, jagged…
Which shading technique uses lots of dots?
Stippling.
Which element is always relevant in 3D artworks?
Form.
What is shape?
A flat area defined by edges or an outline.