Elements
A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
Primary colors
What are red, blue and yellow?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action.
What is movement?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?
Red + Blue =
What is violet?
Any three-dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is form?
Secondary colors
What are orange, green and violet?
The area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is emphasis?
A large difference between two things.
What is contrast?
The complementary color of blue.
What is orange?
Smoothness, roughness, softness in visual
What is texture?
Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of...
What are analogous colors?
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colors and other principles of design to create interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
A common name for a color.
What is hue?
The complementary color of red.
What is green?
Lightness and darkness
What is value?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
The relationship of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is proportion?
When a variety of elements work well together.
What is harmony?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
Negative and positive area.
What is space?
Mixing two complementary colors makes this.
What are neutrals?
A feeling of stability with different shapes.
What is asymmetrical balance?
A visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
When you add white to hue you create this.
What is tint?