Elements
A mark with length and directions, 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 or motion
What is movement?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?
Any three dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is form?
Secondary colors
What are orange, green and violet?
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, etc.
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 elements of design to create visual interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
Common name for color.
What is hue?
Lightness and darkness
What is value?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number, or degree.
What is proportion?
When a variety of elements work well together.
What is unity?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
Negative and positive, or having a sense of depth
What is space?
Mixing two complementary colors makes this.
What are neutrals?
A feeling of stability or visual weight
What is balance?
A visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
When you add white to hue you create this.
What is tint?