Elements
The path of a moving point.
What is line?
They are red, yellow, and blue, and the foundation of the color wheel.
What are primary colors?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action or guide the viewer's eye.
What is movement?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness or oneness.
What is harmony?
Opposites each other on the color wheel.
Complementary colors
When a line travels a path, meets up at its starting point, and encloses a space.
What is shape?
Secondary colors
What are orange, green and violet?
Area in a work of art that is the focal point.
What is emphasis?
Difference. Created by a strong shift in in color, value, texture, subject.
What is contrast?
3 - 5 colors next to each other on the color wheel.
What is an analogous color harmony?
The feeling of an object, either 3D (actual) or 2D (visual).
What is texture?
Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of this color harmony.
What are analogous colors?
A type of balance achieved by using the rule of thirds.
What is asymmetrical balance?
Another name for color.
What is hue?
Tints, shades, and tones of the same color.
What is monochromatic?
Lightness and darkness of a color or material.
What is value?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary color?
The relationship of one object to another in size, scale, or amount.
What is proportion?
A type of rhythm that is established by a gradual change in elements.
What is progressive rhythm?
Three colors equally spaced around the color wheel. They also create an equilateral triangle.
What is a triadic color harmony?
Negative and positive.
What is space?
Black, white, grey.
What are neutrals?
The principle of art concerned with equalizing visual forces.
What is balance?
A visual tempo or beat, created by repetition.
What is rhythm?
A color and the two colors adjacent to its complement.
What is a split complementary color harmony?