Elements/Principles
Can be thick, thin, straight, curvy.
What is a line?
Painting a quick impression of an area concentrating on the light.
What is Impressionism? Who is Monet?
Making a mark on a surface using a pencil, crayon, marker, paint brush etc.
What is drawing?
Warm, cool,analogous, complementary.
What is color?
Using paint straight out of the tube, using bright colors.
What are Fauves/wild beasts? Who is Matisse?
Applying paint (pigment) to a surface.
What is painting?
Can be smooth, rough, soft or bumpy
what is texture?
Using small dots of color next to each other causing your eyes to mix them.
What is Pointillism? Who is Seurat?
Applying solid pigment to a surface, blending the colors in layers.
What are oil pastels or chalk?
Same on one side as it is on the other side with an imaginary line down the center.
What is symmetry or balance?
Using elements of art to simplify a work of art using, lines, colors, shapes.
What is Modernism? Who is Mondrian?
Only looking at the object you are drawing and not at the paper.
what is blind contour drawing?
Adding contrast, visual changes in size, shape, color to a work of art to make it more interesting.
What is variety?
Group of Austrian artists wanting to make modern art, instead of old conservative art.
What are the Vienna Secession artists? WHo is Gustov Klimt?
Once you find this, you can tell where light, medium, dark values, and cast shadows are.
What is a light source?