Elements of Design
These three colors are made from the primary colors.
What are orange, green and purple. (secondary colors)
This describes when an object is placed over another object to create space or depth in an artwork.
What is overlapping.
Heidi Kenney created pop art plushies that are 3-dimensional. What type of sculpture is this called?
What is Soft Sculpture?
This word describes a color that is mixed with white to make it lighter.
What is a tint.
A line that separates the land from the sky in landscape painting.
What is the horizon line.
This is a mark that moves across the page. Sometimes it can be horizontal, vertical, straight, curvy, or zig-zagged.
What is a line.
This balance is when the weight is the same on both sides; most geometric shapes are this.
What is symmetry.
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
When you add black to a color you make this?
What is a shade.
This has length and width and is flat (like a drawing or painting).
What is two-dimensional (2-D).
These can be geometric, free form or organic.
What are shapes.
This describes when something repeats itself over and over again.
What is pattern or repetition.
The dark shape or shadow of an image?
What is Silhouette?
In landscape painting, this refers to the location of where objects appear the largest and closest to you.
What is foreground.
Something that has length, width, and depth (thickness). It pops out at you and is not flat. You can see it from many sides or angles.
What is three-dimensional (3-D)
This describes how something feels.
What is texture.
This describes a balance when things come or go to and from a center or middle point (hint: name designs)
What is radial balance.
These lines show only the outline of an object.
What is Contour Line?
This refers to the objects that appear the smallest and furthest away.
What is background.
Art that is made up of every day objects and arranged in an interesting way.
What is still life.
This describes lights and darks
What is value.
Complementary colors create this; as do the colors black and white. It helps to make one thing stand out from the other.
What is contrast.
The Zen like rhythm of doodling.
What is Zentangle?
In sewing, this stitch is used to join two pieces of felt together at the seams.
What is Whip Stitch?
The type of perspective in landscape painting that objects in the distance appear lighter and faded.
What is atmospheric perspective.