Elements of Art
How light or dark a hue (or color) is
What is value?
The name of a color (like blue, purple, or pink)
What is hue?
Type of shading that uses a finger or other material to push color around and add value
What is finger blending?
Combining elements to add a sense of equilibrium
What is balance?
Paint that uses water to liquify and spread the color
What is watercolor paint?
Defined as a point moving in space
What is line?
Any hue (or color) that can't be created by combing other colors
What is a primary color?
A preliminary drawing of a composition
What is a sketch?
A repeated element in a work of art
What is pattern?
In linear perspective, the point on the horizon line where parallel lines appear to converge
What is the vanishing point?
A two-dimensional element of art that includes height and length
What is a shape?
The three primary colors
What are red, yellow, and blue?
A detailed drawing or painting of one part of a composition, but not the entire, final piece
What is a study?
A way to create the feeling of action, and to move the viewer's eye
What is movement?
A slow-drying paint made of pigment and an oil binder
What is oil paint?
A three-dimensional element of art which includes height, length, and depth
What is a form?
Hues (or colors) that are opposite of each other on the color wheel
What are complementary colors?
A type of shading that uses perpendicular lines to add value
What is cross hatching?
What is emphasis?
A rapid-drying paint
What is acrylic paint?
Refers to the way things feel or look like they might feel
What is texture?
What are green, purple, and orange?
The size relationship between different elements in a composition
What is proportion?
The means an artist uses to organize elements in art
What are the principles of design?
A way of showing 3D depths on a flat, 2D surface
What is linear perspective?