Elements of Design
Principles of Design
COLOR
Art Media & Techniques
Miscellaneous
100
This is a mark that moves across the page. Sometimes it can be horizontal, vertical, straight, curvy, or zig-zagged.
What is a line?
100
This describes when an object is placed over another object to create space or depth in an artwork.
What is overlapping?
100
Name the three primary colors?
What are Red, Yellow, & Blue?
100
Made from wax, this media will become a liquid when heated, and a solid when cooled.
What are crayons?
100
This type of art has height, width and depth.
What is 3-dimensional, or 3-D art?
200
These can be geometric, free form or organic.
What are shapes?
200
This balance is when the weight is the same on both sides.
What is symmetry or symmetrical?
200
These three colors are made from the primary colors.
What are the secondary colors [orange, green, & violet]?
200
The use of more than one type of medium in an artwork [example: paint, paper, crayon, pastel, etc].
What is Mixed-Media?
200
A symbol for a company, product or service is this.
What is a logo?
300
This element is a surface change, for example rough, smooth, bumpy,etc.
What is texture?
300
This principle of design refers to the quality of wholeness or oneness that is achieved through the effective use of the elements.
What is Unity?
300
This is what you get when you mix all of the colors on the color wheel in pigment.
What is the color black?
300
The object that is closest and the largest in scale in a picture is in this ground.
What is the foreground?
300
Any color of the color wheel mixed together with Black.
What is a shade?
400
Black, White, & Grey.
What are the Neutral Colors?
400
This describes when something repeats itself over and over again.
What is pattern?
400
Examples of this type of color are Red-Orange, Yellow-Green, and Blue-Violet.
What are tertiary colors?
400
A picture or design created by adhering such basically flat elements as paper, photographs, cloth, string, etc., to a flat surface.
What is collage?
400
This word describes a color that is mixed with WHITE to make it lighter.
What is a tint?
500
The element that refers to the lightness and darkness that falls upon a subject.
What is value?
500
This type of balance is uneven.
What is asymmetry?
500
Colors beside one another on the color wheel are said to be this.
What are analogous colors?
500
This describes artwork where something is zoomed in and looks like lines, shapes and colors or not real.
What is abstract art?
500
The use of only one color and the tints and shades of that color in an artwork. [example: black and white photograph]
What is Monochromatic?
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