2 colors across from each other on the color wheel.
What is complementary color scheme?
100
Using your brush to make repeating x’s on your painting to create texture.
What is cross-hatching?
100
The most simple of all of the watercolor techniques. 1 solid color with no brush strokes.
What is a wash?
100
The 3 colors that can be mixed to make all other colors.
Primary Colors.
100
Abstract artwork that is based on a solid idea that everyone can visualize in their head.
What is representational?
200
2 or 3 colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel.
What is analogous color scheme?
200
Using a ruler to create straight lines.
What is brush ruling?
200
2 layers of watercolor colors on top of one another. Creates a new color.
What is a glaze?
200
Refers to the side of the color wheel with reds, yellows and oranges.
Warm Colors.
200
The Post-World War 2 art movement where the art world shifted from Paris to New York City.
What is Abstract Expression?
300
3 colors that form a perfect triangle on the color wheel.
What is a color triad color scheme?
300
Taking a tool and setting it into your paint and lifting it up. Lifting it up creates textures.
What is imprints?
300
A watercolor technique where the water fades from dark to light.
What is a gradient?
300
Adding black to a color.
Shade.
300
Artwork that is based on an idea that people cannot create a clear picture in their head - for example, an emotion.
What is non-representational?
400
One color, plus its tints and shades.
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
400
Painting 2 layers of paint, scraping the top layer off to reveal the first.
What is sgraffito?
400
Similar to a glaze in watercolor, except the 2nd layer of color only covers part of the 1st.
What is wet on wet?
400
Adding white to a color.
Tint.
400
In the type of perspective we used for your acrylic landscape paintings, colors get cooler as they go from foreground to midground to background.
What is atmospheric (or aerial) perspective?
500
One color on the color wheel, plus the color across from it and the two colors closest to the color across from it.
What is a split complementary color scheme?
500
Painting a layer of acrylic paint, letting it dry and going over it with broken color.
What is scumbling?
500
2 colors of watercolor paint are watery and run together (often accidentally).
What is a bleed/bleeding?
500
Colors that “take over” the other colors when mixed. Usually the darkest colors.
Dominant colors.
500
Mark Rothko became famous for his rectangular paintings, where he had a solid color background, with 2 rectangles sitting on top of it. These were meant to represent emotions.