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The building blocks of art; what you use to create art
What is an element?
How the elements of art are used
What is a principle?
2-3 specific colors
What is a color scheme?
The two colors that make orange
What are yellow and red?
One color plus black
What is a shade?
The range of lights to darks
What is value?
The name of a color
What is a hue?
Red, yellow, and blue
What are the primary colors?
The two colors that make violet
What are red and blue?
One color plus white
What is a tint?
A moving dot
What is a line?
The darks and lights of a color
What is value?
Green, violet, and orange
What are the secondary colors?
The two colors that make green
What are yellow and blue?
One color plus gray
What is a tone?
The wavelengths that the brain sees when light is reflected off of an object
What is color?
The vividness of the color
What is intensity?
Colors that are hyphenated and a mix of primary and secondary colors
What are the tertiary colors?
One color plus black and white
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
Two sides will match if the design is folded
What is symmetrical balance?
The arrangement of elements so that no side is “too heavy”; visual weight
What is balance?
The levels of pure color
What is saturation?
A plastic type of paint
What is acrylic paint?
This color is a combination of all the colors in the color spectrum (the absorption of light)
What is white?
Two sides will not match if the design is folded
What is asymmetrical balance?