Elements of art
Principals of design
Basic Colors
100

A mark with length and direction created by a point moving across a surface.

What is a line?

100

The regular reuse of a specific element or design.

Pattern & Repetition

100
Refers to lightness and darkness

What is value

200

The lightness or darkness of a color.

What is value?

200

The equal distribution of visual weight (symmetrical, asymmetrical, or radial)

Balance

200

This is created when adding white to color.

What is a tint.
300

Shapes found in nature that are free-flowing and irregular.

What is an organic shape?

300

A focal point that catches and holds the viewer's attention.

Emphasis

300

This is created by adding black to a color.

What is shade.
400

The surface quality of an artwork or the illusion of how it feels.

What is texture?

400

The path the eye takes through a work of art.


Movement

400

This is a plan for organizing color in a work of art.

What is color scheme.

500

What are the three primary colors 

Blue, Red and Yellow

500

The relative size and relationship of parts to each other and the whole.

Proportion / Scale

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