Making Color
The three primary colors used to make all other colors.
What are red, blue, and yellow?
A painting, photograph, drawing of a person
What is a PORTRAIT?
An element of art that refers to the lightness and darkness of a color.
What is value?
These colors that convey the feeling of high temperature. (Red, yellow, orange)
What are warm colors?
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo DaVinci
The type of color you get when you mix 2 primary colors together.
The area of a landscape that is closest to the viewer.
What is foreground?
The terms for adding white or black to a color to change its value.
What are tints and shades?
The cool colors.
What are blue, green, and violet?
This is the area AROUND the subjects, or areas of interest.
What is NEGATIVE SPACE ?
The combination of blue mixed with red.
What is violet (purple)?
This is art that represents inanimate objects like fruit, cut flowers, utensils, and other everyday items.
What is a STILL LIFE?
The areas of an object where light does not hit.
What are shadows?
Colors that are opposite from each other on the color wheel.
What are Complementary colors?
We ADD WHITE to a HUE or COLOR to create this.
What is a TINT?
The type of color you get when you mix a primary with a secondary color.
What is a tertiary color?
The technique used to show that one object is in front of another.
What is overlapping?
The area of an object where light is hitting it directly.
What are highlights?
Using the tints and shades of only ONE color, or hue.
What is Monochromatic?
To create a SHADE of a HUE we add this.
What is BLACK?
This shows where the earth and the sky meet.
What is horizon line?
The area in a landscape painting that is the farthest away from the viewer.
What is the BACKGROUND?
A rectangle strip of squares created by an artist showing range of value from light to dark.
What is a value scale?
Three or four colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
This term is best described as the areas in a work of art that are the subjects, or areas of interest.
What is POSITIVE SPACE?