A color scheme that has 2 colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel.
What is complementary color scheme?
100
Where your colors change from foreground to background. Colors will become cooler, lighter and duller.
What is atmospheric perspective?
100
In watercolor, the most simple of all of the watercolor techniques. 1 solid color with no brush strokes.
What is a wash?
100
Splitting/dividing your image.
What is fragmentation?
100
Sample colors that are used to test your color mixing compared to your object.
What is a swatch?
200
The reds, yellows and oranges on the color wheel are these kinds of colors.
What are warm colors?
200
Making x’s with your paintbrush to cover your canvas.
What is cross hatching?
200
In watercolor, a technique where the water fades from dark to light.
What is a gradient?
200
Abstract art that is based on something else that cannot be visualized
Who is non-representational abstract art?
200
A tool used that has 0 to 10 from whites to blacks that's used to figure out how light or dark an object is?
What is a value scale?
300
A color that takes over another color while mixing (typically a darker color).
What is a dominant color?
300
Start with thick layer of paint and use a tool to make texture.
What are imprints?
300
Similar to a glaze in watercolor, except the 2nd layer of color only covers part of the 1st.
What is wet on wet?
300
The artist who was inspired by music and created paintings that looked like landscapes.
Who is Wassily Kandinsky?
300
Where your light comes from?
What is a light source?
400
A primary and a secondary color mixed together create this kind of color.
What is a tertiary color?
400
Broken color on a colored surface.
What is scumbling?
400
Using a wooden tool to make marks in your paper and then going over it with a wash. When done correctly, the part of paper with impressions will look darker than the rest.
What is scoring?
400
The painter who created "drip painting" - the style of painting where paint was splattered/thrown/dripped onto a canvas. AKA Jack the Dripper.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
400
Every time your plane changes, this changes.
What is value?
500
1 color, plus its’ complementary and the 2 colors that are next to its’ complementary.
What is a split complementary color scheme?
500
1 color and let it dry. Add a second layer of paint, then scrape it off.
What is sgraffito?
500
In watercolor, where your watercolor runs together – can be an accident or on purpose.
What is bleeding?
500
In our abstract art experiments, something to your background that will repeat/combine with your image.