Elements
A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
An element that occurs over and over in a composition is showing this principle.
What is pattern?
When designing your composition this element is a flat, enclosed area with a length and width.
What is shape?
Red + Blue =
What is violet or purple?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is emphasis?
How the viewer's eye travels through an artwork, creating a visual flow.
What is Movement?
The complimentary color of blue.
What is orange?
Smoothness, roughness, softness in visual or actual ( tactile) surfaces
What is texture?
Blue, Blue-Green, and Green is an example of what color scheme or color harmony...
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?
This element is the light that we see reflected off of an object. It has 4 properties: hue, value, intensity, and temperature.
What is color or hue?
When you add grey to a color you get this type of color?
What is tone?
The range of lightness and darkness
What is value?
Mixing a primary and secondary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
The relationship of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree. Or the relationship between parts of the object to its whole.
What is Proportion? Accept responses of *scale or *ratio also.
This Principle of design focuses on strong differences between the elements in the composition.
What is contrast?
Negative and positive are examples for this element.
What is space?
Mixing two complimentary colors makes this.
What are neutrals?
The distribution of visual weight in an artwork. There are 3 kinds of this: symmetrical, asymmetrical and radial.
What is balance?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?