Elements of Art
This element refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
Value
This art material needs to be hand sharpened.
Prismacolor color pencil
This genre depicts outdoor scenery like mountains, rivers, and skies.
Landscape
The fluffy companion in Ms. Potter's life.
Lunchbox
The other amazing art teacher you might have in 7th grade?
Ms. King
A continuous mark made on a surface — the most basic element of art.
Line
Artists use this flat template with cut-out shapes to repeat a design or pattern quickly and consistently.
Stencil
This genre focuses on a person or group of people as its main subject.
Portrait
This art material is Ms. Potter's favorite because you can do anything with it.
Paper
The new feature of our school's art department this year?
Monthly Art Contests
This element describes the surface quality of a work — how it feels or appears to feel.
Texture
Artists use this opaque white drawing tool to add highlights on dark paper — it skips smoothly over ink and paint.
White Gel Pen
This genre features arrangements of everyday objects like fruit, flowers, and vases.
Still Life
The amount of years Ms. Potter has spent her days teaching art>
14 years
The art we make together at the beginning of each term.
A collaborative art piece
(examples: unity quilts, growth garden)
The element that refers to the area between, around, above, below, or within objects.
Space
This art material is versatile. It can be cut, bent, and altered to show texture.
Cardboard
This genre uses drawings and designs to represent buildings and structures.
Architecture
The things that drives Ms. Potter most insane.
Screaming or unnecessary loud sounds
The color chosen as WFMS'S 2026 Color of the year?
Gliteratti aka Cadet Gold
This is the three-dimensional element that has height, width, and depth — like a cube or sphere.
This transparent medium uses water to activate pigment and relies on the paper itself for highlights.
Watercolor Paint
This genre doesn't represent realistic imagery — instead it uses shape, color, and form to express ideas and emotions
Abstract
The art center in Frederick where Ms. Potter has exhibited her artwork.
The Delaplaine
The name of the big night celebrating students, art, music and theatre?
We Are West Frederick