Elements
Color Wheel
Principles
Design Chart
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A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
100
Primary colors
What are red, blue and yellow?
100
Using art elements to direct a viewer's eye along a path through the artwork.
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.
What is form?
200
Secondary colors
What are orange, green and violet?
200
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is focal point/emphasis.
200
The difference in quality between two instances of an art element, or using opposing qualities next to each other.
What is contrast?
200
The complementary color of blue.
What is orange?
300
Smoothness, roughness, softness in visual
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
The size of something compared to the world in general
What is scale?
300
A common name for color.
What is hue?
400
Lightness and darkness
What is value?
400
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
400
The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is proportion?
400
The distribution of interest or visual weight in a work.
What is balance?
400
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
500
Negative and positive
What is space?
500
Mixing two complimentary colors makes this.
What are neutrals/brown
500
A feeling of stability with two sides that are not identical.
What is asymmetrical balance?
500
A visual tempo or beat when elements are repeated, alternated, or otherwise arranged.
What is rhythm?
500
Absorbing certain wavelengths of color while reflecting other wavelengths back to the viewer
What is subtractive color?
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