Red, yellow and blue are known as this type of colour
What are the primary colours?
100
A work of art made with a pencil, pen, crayon, charcoal, or other implements, often consisting of lines and marks (noun); the act of producing a picture with pencil, pen, crayon, charcoal, or other implements (verb, gerund).
What is drawing?
100
The area of an artwork that appears farthest away from the viewer; also, the area against which a figure or scene is placed.
What is the background?
100
Refers to the harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole
What is proportion?
100
Cotton or linen woven cloth used as a surface for painting.
What is a canvas?
200
Having a single colour. A work of art rendered in only one colour.
What is monochrome?
200
The technique and resulting work of art in which fragments of paper and other materials are arranged and glued to a supporting surface.
What is collage?
200
In art, a technique used to depict volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface, as in a painted scene that appears to extend into the distance
What is perspective?
200
The outline of something
What is contour?
200
The manner in which a painter applies paint with a brush.
What is brushwork?
300
The range of colours used by an artist in making a work of art; or also a thin wooden or plastic board on which an artist holds and mixes paint.
What is an artist's palette?
300
A print of a type made from a design cut in a block of wood, formerly widely used for illustrations in books.
What is a woodcut?
300
The placement of objects over one another in order to create the illusion of depth.
What is overlapping?
300
Representing a form or figure in art that retains clear ties to the real world.
What is figurative art?
300
The arrangement of the individual elements within a work of art so as to form a unified whole; also used to refer to a work of art, music, or literature, or its structure or organization.
What is composition?
400
A soft and delicate shade of a colour; a drawing medium of dried paste manufactured in crayon form made of ground pigments and a water-based binder; a picture or sketch drawn with this type of crayon.
What is pastel?
400
Decorative handwriting or lettering
What is calligraphy?
400
To reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye:
What is foreshortening?
400
An act of placing things close together or side by side for comparison or contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
400
An element or substance out of which something can be made or composed.
What is medium?
500
the name for the six hues intermediate between the primary and secondary colours, including amber, vermilion/cinnabar, magenta, violet, teal/aqua, and chartreuse
What are tertiary colours?
500
The craft of decorating fabric or other materials with thread or yarn using a needle.
What is embroidery?
500
The virtual, illusionary plane created by the artist, parallel to the physical surface of a two-dimensional work of art; the physical surface of a two-dimensional work of art, e.g. a painting, drawing, or print.
What is the picture plane?
500
The way repeated shapes, lines, or colors create movement across or around a composition
What is rhythm?
500
A printmaking process tin which the image is incised (scratched or cut) into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink.