Shapes
Art Forms
Art Actions
Art Tools
Describing Art
100

This shape looks like the moon at night when it’s not full.

crescent

100

A picture you take with a camera.

photograph

100

What you do with paper to make origami

fold

100

You use these to cut paper. (

scissors

100

Something that reflects light, like gold or silver.

shiny

200

This shape has no corners and looks like a stretched circle

oval

200

The Japanese art of folding paper.

origami

200

When paper looks old and messy because you press it.

crumple

200

You use this liquid color with a brush

watercolors

200

A color like the sun or metal.

Golden

300

A line that is not curved.

straight

300

A type of painting made with small colored pieces of glass or stone.

mosaic

300

The outside limit of a shape

edge

300

You can write or color with these long wooden tools.

colored pencils

300

Many pictures or materials together in one work of art.

Collage

400

A shape that goes around and around, like a snail’s shell.

spiral

400

A type of painting made with oil-based colors.

oil painting

400

What waves in the sea or on paper do.

waves

400

You use this to stick paper together.

glue

400

A small work of art that hangs and moves with the air.

Mobile

500

Many small parts repeated again and again to make a design.

pattern

500

An artwork that you can see from many sides and is not flat.

sculpture

500

In origami, this bird is very famous

crane

500

You use these sticks to make drawings on the board or on the ground.

chalk

500

When you use mountains to inspire your drawing.

Nature

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