Elements of Art
The lightness and Darkness of a color.
What is Value?
The tools used for creating a piece of artwork.
What is a medium
Another word for color
What is Hue?
Having to do with the use of Pencil, Pens, marker, crayon, chalk, pastel, ink.
What is illustration/drawing
Importance given to certain objects or areas in an artwork. Color, texture, shape, space, placement and size can be used to create dominance.
What is emphasis?
The space that a form or shape occupies in an artwork.
What is Positive Space?
Relating to abstract Art.
What is Non-objective art?
the family of colors that includes, greens, blues, and violets. Cool things, places or feelings to mind.
What are cool Colors?
Art style having to do with stone, clay, metal, wood, found objects
What is sculpture?
Repeated colors, lines or shapes, forms or textures in an artwork.
What is pattern?
The way something feels to the touch.
What is Texture?
photographic technique that creates a frame within a frame that directs the viewer's attention to a focal point by possibly blocking or obscuring the rest of the photo.
What is Framing?
A color scheme that uses different values of the same hue by showing tints and shades of the same hue.
What is Monochromatic
Having to do with oil, acrylic, guache, watercolor, or tempera.
What is painting?
The arrangement of the parts of an artwork to give a sense of overall equality in visual weight.
What is Balance?
a two-dimensional area created by visually connected actual or implied lines. can be geometric, such as a circle or square or organic, having an irregular outline.
What is a shape?
a drawing technique in which artists move a drawing medium, such as pencil, quickly and freely over a surface to capture form and actions of a subject.
What is Gesture Drawing
colors that appear next to each other on the color wheel. Typically have one hue in common.
What are analogous Colors?
Artwork having to do with several art mediums such as pen, pencil, paint, photography, found objects, collage etc.
What is mixed media?
the quality of seeming whole and complete, with all parts looking right together.
What is Unity?
the area around, above, between, inside, or below objects. Positive is the area occupied by an object. Negative is the empty area surrounding an object.
What is Space?
Existing in thought as in an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
What is abstract art?
colors that contrast with one another. Colors that are opposite one another on the color wheel.
What are complimentary colors?
Art format having to do with film, digital format, cellphone?
the repetition of elements, such as lines, shapes or colors, that creates a feeling of visual motion in an artwork. In music it refers to the pattern of a melody.
What is Rhythm