Elements and Principles of Art
Types of art
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Vocabulary
Techniques
100

Shape that looks like it came from nature. It’s not perfectly straight or regular.

Organic Shape

100

A type of painting where you add water to the paints

Watercolor painting

100

This is what Ms. Becker uses to grade you

Success Criteria

100

A painting, drawing, or picture of an area of land

Landscape

100

A watercolor painting technique that uses wet paper and wet paint

Wet on wet

200

A mathematical shape with clear edges. These shapes have straight lines or smooth curves and are easy to measure.

Geometric Shape

200

A type of art that uses torn up pieces of paper

Collage

200

What is it called when you look at and give feedback on someone's art? 

Critique

200

Part of a landscape that is closest to you

Foreground

200

A watercolor technique that uses dry paper and wet paint

wet on dry

300

The lights and darks in a drawing

Value

300

when you create a picture or pattern by repeating the same shape over and over again, like a puzzle, without any gaps or overlaps.

Tessellation 

300

Who is the 7th/8th grade art teacher?

Ms. Joy

300

Part of a landscape that is farthest from you

Background

300

A watercolor and acrylic painting technique that is great for adding texture

Dry Brush

400

A repeated design

Pattern

400

A rough draft of a drawing

A sketch

400

Is black a color? 

NO!

Bonus points if you can say what it actually is.

400

Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel

Analogous colors

400

What is this technique called?


Stippling

500

Ms. Becker has a pet cat, can anyone remember his name?

(hint: it starts with an A)

Azriel

500

This is what you call what you are drawing/making in art

(Hint: we learned about this during our stippling unit)

Subject matter

500

What is this technique called?


Cross Hatching

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