Choose Your Medium
This medium you may have to sharpen a lot! (especially if you're making a blue sky)
Colored pencil
The building blocks used to create a work of art
Elements of Art
Line is a mark made by a moving ______.
Point
This principle of art is how action is depicted.
Movement
If you want to make a shape, you need to enclose it with this...
A line
Add a little water to activate this paint!
Watercolor
The guidelines for arranging the Elements of Art
Principles of Design
What are the 6 types of lines?
Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, wavy, and zig-zag
These two lines do NOT move
Horizontal and vertical
These shapes are irregular and uneven (hint: nature)
Organic or Freeform
Colored pencils, acrylic paint, markers, and collaged magazines? We call that combination __________.
Mixed-media
It's goal is to evoke emotion, cause social change, or make you think.
Art
A line that follows the outline of a subject
Contour
These 4 lines DO move!
A precise shape (often using math)
Geometric
This medium is great for blending colors, but don't forget to spray it with fixative when you're done!
Chalk pastel
Logos, billboards, websites, apps, furniture, and products for sale at the store are all examples of this.
Design
How thick or thin a line is refers to the line's _______.
Weight
This type of line is quick and loose (hint: you might have to stand up to draw this line)
Gesture line
Flat shapes only have height and width so they are...
2-D (2-dimensional)
This dark medium comes in two types: vine and compressed
Charcoal
Art is the ___________ of human creativity, imagination, and emotion.
Expression
This type of line is made when you lift your pencil to fade a thicker line into a point (hint: barber shop?)
Taper
A line that isn't actually drawn, but your eye still follows.
Implied line
After he was confined to a wheelchair, this artist cut shapes out of paper to make his art
Henri Matisse