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 elements.
What is contrast?
The complimentary color of blue.
What is orange?
The way a surface feels or looks like it feels
What is texture?
Blue, Blue-green, Green, Yellow-green is an example of...
What are analogous colors?
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colors and other elements of design to create interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
Common name for color.
What is hue?
The complimentary color of red.
What is green?
The lightness and darkness
What is value?
Mixing a two primary color unevenly creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
The relation of one element to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is proportion?
Arranging elements so that there is equal visual weight in the composition.
What is balance?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
The area within or around in a composition. It can be negative and positive.
What is space?
Mixing two complimentary colors evenly creates this.
What are neutrals?
A feeling of stability created by having elements mirror each other in a composition.
What is symmetrical balance?
Repeating elements in a planned way.
What is pattern?
When you add white to hue you create this.
What is tint?