Color and Value
Line and Texture
Shape and Form
Space
Wildcard
100
Three to four colors right next to each other on the color wheel.
What are analogous colors?
100
The way something feels, or appears to feel.
What is texture?
100
The art element that's created when lines connect or intersect.
What is shape?
100
The art element that portrays an illusion of depth within an artwork.
What is space?
100
The complement of blue.
What is orange?
200
The result of combining two primary colors together.
What are the secondary colors?
200
The art element that is often used to create the other art elements, like shape, form and texture.
What is line?
200
A three dimensional figure or space.
What is form?
200
A way to demonstrate space, by placing objects in front of or behind other objects.
What is overlapping?
200
All of the visual components that make up an artwork. Such as color, value, line, texture, shape, form and space.
What are the art elements?
300
The range of white and black and an unlimited number of colors in between.
What is value?
300
Lines that show value, without the use of blending.
What is hatching or cross-hatching?
300
Known shapes that are precise and sharply defined. Such as square, circle, triangle.
What are geometric shapes?
300
A simple way to demonstrate space, with the use of vanishing points and parallel lines.
What is perspective?
300
This property of color refers to the actual name of a pure color (like 'violet', 'red', or 'yellow')
What is hue?
400

A color harmony that uses only one color, plus white, black, or sometimes the complementary color.

What is monochromatic?
400
Lines or texture that are not actually in the artwork (such as line of sight).
What is implied line (or implied texture)?
400

Using this value technique of including highlights, mid-values and shadows, one can demonstrate Form in an artwork.

What is blending/shading?
400
Making an artwork appear to have space, even though it is on a 2D surface. This can be done using overlapping, size variation, placement, value, details, perspective.
What is illusion of depth?
400
This is a chart that shows incremental steps running from light to dark, showing the change in value within a color spectrum.
What is a value scale?
500
Placing the lightest values next to the darkest values in a work of art.

What is value contrast?

500
Lines that quickly show shape and movement of a figure, they are fluid and often free-flowing.
What are gesture lines?
500
The tangible part of an artwork that is surrounded by empty or blank space/shapes.
What is positive shape or positive space?
500

Walking around an artist's installation at a gallery is an example of this type of space.

What is 3-dimensional or environmental space?
500
Colors created by combining a secondary and primary color together (such as yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange).
What are the tertiary colors?
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