Elements of Art
Art Vocabulary
Colors, colors, and more colors
Potpourri
100
zig-zag, curve, wavy, horizontal, vertical 
What is a line?
100
An element or object repeated in a regular way.
What is pattern?
100
The primary colors.
What are red, blue, and yellow?
100
Paint that needs water to activate.
What is watercolor paint?
200
How something feels.
What is texture?
200
A line that separates the sky from the ground?
What is the horizon line?
200
Caused by the amount of light reflected or absorbed by an object.
What is color?
200
Irregular and uneven shape.
What is organic shape?
300
Describes empty or full areas of an artwork.
What is space?
300
An artwork that is balanced on both sides. 
What is symmetrical?
300
Progression of light to dark colors
what is the value scale? 
300
skeleton of a sculpture.
What is an armature?
400
Lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
400

shapes such as circles, triangles or squares have perfect, uniform measurements and don't often appear in nature.

What is geometric shape?
400
Orange, green, and violet are considered these types of colors.
What are secondary colors?
400
Something that is used to represent something else.
What is a symbol?
500
Caused by the amount of light reflected or absorbed by an object.
What is color?
500
A picture that has elements such are a foreground, mid-ground, and background. 
What is landscape?
500
Violet (purple) and yellow, red and green, and blue and orange are examples of these types of color pairs.
What are complementary colors?
500
A collection of artwork.
What is a portfolio?
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