Elements
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Principles
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Colour Wheel
100
Lightness and Darkness
What is Value
100
Can be geometric or organic.
What is shape?
100
Radial, Symmetry, Assymmetry
What is Balance?
100
A repeated design.
What is Pattern?
100
Green, Orange and Purple
What are the Secondary Colours?
200
A common name for hue
What is colour
200
When you add white to a hue.
What is tint?
200
Creates the illusion of action in an artwork.
What is Movement?
200
When the elements are working together to create an artwork.
What is Unity?
200
The three basic colours that cannot be made by mixing colours.
What are Primary Colours?
300
When you add black to a hue.
What is shade?
300
A mark with length and direction that begins as a point and moves across a page.
What is line?
300
Helps the viewer's eye move through an artwork.
What is movement?
300
Area in a work of art that catches the viewer's attention, a focal point in an artwork.
What is Emphasis?
300
Made of only a single colour or hue, and its tints and shades.
What is a monochromatic artwork?
400
Smoothness, roughness, softness in a visual.
What is texture?
400
A 3D object
What is Form?
400
The size relationship of and within objects.
What is Proportion?
400
Shapes and images repeated outwards from a centre point.
What is radial balance?
400
Brown, Grey, Black and White
What are neutral colours?
500
The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.
What is Space?
500
Used to create the illusion of perspective, movement, shape and form, structure and pattern.
What is Line?
500
The elements on both sides of the page are equal.
What is Symmetrical Balance?
500
A large difference between two things in an artwork.
What is Contrast?
500
Colours that appear next to each other on the colour wheel.
What are Analogous Colours?
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