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100
The quality of an artwork that includes neatness, stability and careful attention to details.
What is craftsmanship?
100
A mark on paper or a painting that has direction.
What is a line?
100
In a print, the first number is the order in which the print was made (third) and the second number is how many identical prints were made in the edition (55).
What does 3/55 mean on the labeling of a print?
100
Principle of art describing how many differences or contrasts are there.
What is variety?
100
What the texture of paper is called.
What is tooth?
200
Word that refers to the degree of differences between elements.
What is contrast?
200
Two-dimensional area of value or color that has definite edges.
What is a shape?
200
A tool, consisting of rows and columns of boxes, used to enlarge or reduce a picture without distortion.
What is a grid?
200
A repetition of an art element in an artwork.
What is pattern?
200
The shape of a shadow cast by a sphere.
What is an elipse?
300
Colors that are created when two primary colors are mixed.
What are secondary colors?
300
Has intensity, value and hue.
What is color?
300
Add more water to your watercolor paint so the white of the paper underneath the paint is more apparent.
How do you create a tint with watercolor paint on white paper?
300
The principle of art used to create the look and feeling of action and guides the viewer's eyes throughout the work of art.
What is movement?
300
A technique of shading in a drawing that uses a series of short, parallel lines.
What is hatching?
400
The American artist who is famous for his large portraits of celebrities created by using a camera and a grid.
Who is Chuck Close?
400
The area your artwork occupies.
What is space?
400
Use any hue along with the hues on either side of the hue's compliment.
How do you create a split-complementary color scheme?
400
Principle that makes one part of an artwork dominant over the other parts.
What is emphasis?
400
Colors found opposite each other on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
500
The surface of an object that reflects the most light.
What is a highlight?
500
The quality of three-dimensional artwork that is the opposite of shape.
What is form or mass?
500
Tool for holding your block print as you cut it and for protecting your work surface from damage.
What is a bench hook?
500
A principle of art that refers to the size or amount of something in that work.
What is proportion?
500
The metal part on a brush that holds the bristles to the handle.
What is a ferrel?
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