Elements and Principles
The way light reflects off of a surface
What is color?
True or False: Gesture drawings use small details.
False
Red, Yellow, Blue
What are the primary colors?
Often curvilinear in appearance
What are organic shapes?
Gradual fade, light to dark or color to color
What is gradient?
Relationships between objects with size
What is proportion/scale?
True or False: Contour drawings are usually one continuous line.
True
Red, Yellow, Orange
What are warm colors?
Found in Nature
Where organic shapes are found?
Wet on wet technique, then let it get slightly dry, then drop in/splatter paint
What are drops/splatter?
The arrangement of elements to give viewer the feeling of the piece as a whole
What is harmony?
Action or form that an object is in
What is gesture drawing?
Blue, Green, Purple
What are cool colors?
A flat area that is defined by lines and colors
What is a shape?
Wet paper first then add wet paint
What is wet on wet?
A regular arrangement of repeated elements or motifs
What is pattern?
Sketches that create an outline of an object
What is a contour drawing?
colors based on the location on the color wheel
What is temperature?
Precise, hard-edged, straight lines, regular
What is salt?
The illusion of depth within an artwork, can also refer to the positive and negative ______
What is space?
Characteristics: Quick simple drawing that captures movement and action of a figure
What are the elements of a gesture drawing?
how a color leans towards a primary color
What is a bias?
life form (vocabulary)
What is biomorphic?
Draw with wax then paint on top, the water will _____ the wax
What is resist?