Color Basics
Types of Color
Color Schemes
Elements of Art
Other Vocabulary
100
This is another word for color.
What is hue?
100
Name the three primary colors.
What are red, yellow, and blue?
100
This is a color scheme that uses various tints and shades of a single color.
What is monochromatic?
100
This is the element of art that refers to the area around objects in a work of art.
What is space?
100

Blue/blue green/green would be an example of what color scheme?

What is analogous?

200
This refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
200
Name the three secondary colors.
What are orange, violet, and green?
200
This is a color scheme that uses colors that are next to each other with a single color in common. For example, red, red-orange, and red-violet.
What is analogous?
200

These colors convey calm (as opposed to energy)

What are cool colors?

200

These shapes are irregular, often found in nature, and unpredictable

What are organic shapes?

300
This is created by adding white to a color.
What is a tint?
300
Name three warm colors.
What are red, yellow, and orange?
300
This is a color scheme that uses two colors that are directly opposite on the color wheel. For example, blue and orange.
What is complementary?
300

These colors convey energy (as opposed to calm)

What are warm colors?

300

A drawing technique using only outlines and details but no shading

What is contour line drawing?

400
This is created by adding black to a color.
What is a shade?
400
Name three cool colors.
What are blue, violet, and green?
400

What word describes how bright or saturated a hue is?

What is intensity?

400

This element of art is defined as a mark on any surface, or a moving point.

What is line?

400

These shapes are perfect, regular, predictable, and rarely found in nature

What are geometric shapes?

500
This is a plan for organizing color in a work of art.
What is a color scheme?
500
Name the six intermediate colors.
What are red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, and yellow-orange?
500
This is the color scheme that uses three colors spaced at equal distances apart on the color wheel. For example, orange, violet, and green.
What is triad?
500

This is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.

What is color?

500

Black, grey, tan, brown, taupe, and white are examples of what?

What are neutrals?

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