ELEMENTS OF ART
Created by a pen, pencil, brush, or any tool. Can be thick, skinny, long, short, spiral, straight, wavy, zig-zag, horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.
What is Line?
Showing visual weight.
What is Balance?
This is the name for the background behind the main subject of the artwork.
What is Negative Space?
Watercolor, Acrylic, Oil, and Ink Wash.
What is Painting?
A picture of things that don't move, like fruit or flowers.
What is a Still Life?
Light to dark
What is Value?
Showing size relationships.
What is Proportion?
This refers to the overall look and feel of an artwork, like happy, sad, calm, or busy. Can also be expressed through colors such as red, blue, or yellow.
What is Mood?
This tool creates lines and is often black or colored. Comes in multiple colors can be thick or skinny.
What are Markers?
A quick, light drawing.
What is a Sketch?
Areas around, between, or within artwork.
What is Space?
Repeating lines, objects, or shapes.
What is Pattern?
A type of picture where the artist reduces subjects to simple lines, shapes, and colors, not caring if it looks real.
This waxy stick comes in many colors and makes bright drawings.
What are Crayons?
A picture an artist makes of themselves.
What is a Self Portrait?
Primary, Secondary, and Complementary
What is Color?
Creating motion.
What is Movement?
A line or boundary that separates shapes or objects from the background.
What is Outline?
These colored sticks are chalky or oily, and blend easily.
What are Pastels?
A painting of a natural outdoor scene, showing trees, mountains, or fields
What is Landscape?
2D/3D, geometric, or organic.
What are Shapes?
Catching your attention.
What is Emphasis?
An art movement that focuses on showing strong feelings and emotions, often using swirling lines and intense, unrealistic colors to express the artist's inner world.
What is Expressionism?
Takes away from drawings using pencil.
What is an Eraser?
Art made by gluing different things (paper, fabric) onto a surface.
What is a Collage?