The Color Wheel
Elements
Artists
Art Materials
Art Style/Type
100

Secondary Colors

What are orange, green, and violet?

100

A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.

What is Line?

100

Renaissance artist who painted the Mona Lisa

Who is Leonardo da Vinci?

100

This material comes from the earth and gets fired

Clay

100

Loom, Warp, Weft, Repetition

What is Weaving?

200

Intermediate Colors

What is 

Blue-green, Blue-violet

Red-orange, Red-violet

Yellow-green, Yellow-orange


200

The area enclosed by a line - can be geometric or freeform/organic

What is shape?

200

This artist is known for inventing a moving sculpture, The Mobile.

Who is Alexander Calder?

200

Also called a wax oil crayon, they are messy but not dusty.

What is Oil Pastel?

200

Involves scissors, glue, and overlapping layers.

What is Collage?

300

Blue/Orange - Green/Red - Yellow/Purple

What are complimentary colors?

300

How something feels or appears to feel

What is Texture?

300

Created portraits using objects, such as, fruits & vegetables. 

Who is Giuseppe Archimboldo?

300

A type of pigment (Color) use with water

What is Watercolor?

300

Often based on something real, but changed in some way.

What is Abstract Art?

400

When you add black to a hue you create this

What is shade?

400

The lightness or darkness of an object

What is Value?

400

This artist is known for his colorful pop art prints of everyday objects, or celebrities.

Who is Andy Warhol?

400

A coloring tool that blends well, but can create messy dust piles.

What is chalk pastel?

400

Includes a Horizon Line, foreground, middle-ground & background.

What is a Landscape?

500

2-3 colors that are neighbors on the color wheel.

What are Analogous Colors?

500

Negative and Positive; Foreground, Middle ground, and Background

What is Space?

500

This artist was the founder of Cubism and loved to paint whacky portraits 

Who is Pablo Picasso?

500

Similar to paper mache

What is Plaster?

500

A group of objects arranged by the artist, usually found around the house.

What is Still Life?

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