Elements
Color Wheel
Principles
Design Chart
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A long, narrow mark or band, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
100
Primary colors
What are red, blue and yellow?
100
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action.
What is movement?
100
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?
100
Red + Blue =
What is violet?
200
Any three-dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth. For example, a triangle, which is two-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid, which is three-dimensional, is a form. Cubes, spheres, ovoids, pyramids, cone, and cylinders are examples of various forms.
What is form or volume?
200
Secondary colors
What are orange, green and violet?
200
Area in a work of art that cathes and holds the viewer's attention.
What is emphasis?
200
A large difference between two things.
What is contrast?
200
The complimentary color of blue.
What is orange?
300
The perceived surface quality of a work of art. (example: smoothness)
What is texture?
300
Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of...
What are analogous colors?
300
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colors and other elements of design to create interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
300
Common name for color.
What is hue?
300
The complimentary color of red.
What is green?
400
An element of art by which positive and negative areas are defined or a sense of depth achieved in a work of art, by using a range of light and dark tones and colors.
What is value?
400
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
400
The relationship of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree. Refers to the relative size of parts of a whole (elements within an object).
What is proportion?
400
When a variety of elements work well together.
What is harmony?
400
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
500
Refers to distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece. Can be positive (white or light) or negative (black or dark), open or closed, shallow or deep and two-dimensional or three-dimensional.
What is space?
500
Mixing two complimentary colors makes this.
What are neutrals?
500
A feeling of stability with different shapes. If an imaginary line is drawn through the center of the work, both sides are exactly the same, and balanced in that way. In asymmetrical balance, the two sides are not identical, but differ from one another.
What is asymmetrical balance?
500
A visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
500
When you add white to hue you create this.
What is tint?
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