Color Schemes
Colors the a directly across from each other on the color wheel.
What are complimentary colors?
Colors that cannot be created by mixing other colors.
What are the primary colors?
How big or small something is.
What is scale?
Art that is representational things that are found in life.
What is realism?
The most basic visual element.
What is line?
3 to 5 colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
Colors that are made using the primary colors.
What are the secondary colors?
How big or small something is based on the other things present in the artwork. Example: How big the head is compared to the body.
What is proportion?
Art that is not representational. Not found in nature.
What is abstract?
The space around an object or the subject in an artwork.
What is negative space?
Multiple values of one color between light and dark.
What are monochromatic colors?
Colors that are made by mixing primary and secondary colors.
What are the tertiary colors?
How light the lights are compared to how dark the darks are in an artwork.
What is contrast?
Art that looks realistic but includes unnatural elements of things not found in life example a unicorn.
What is surrealism?
How light or dark a color is.
What is value?
What are triadic colors?
The warm colors include...
What are red, yellow, orange?
How much one aspect of the artwork stands out against the rest of the artwork.
What is emphasis?
What is cartoon?
The two main types of shapes.
What is geometric and organic?
A color scheme is...
What is a combination of two or more colors to create harmony or style?
The cool colors include...
What is blue, green, and purple?
The way an artwork directs your eyes around its surface.
What is movement?
Daily Double:
The visible shape of a 3D art piece.
What is form?
The surface quality of an artwork.
What is texture?