Elements
Based on the 3 primaries plus black and white. Has 3 properties: hue, value, and intensity.
What is color?
The place in an artwork where your eye first lands.
What is emphasis?
To attach two pieces of clay together, you must use this technique.
What is score & slip?
Using little lines to show value.
What is hatching?
Art movement started around the 1950's. Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein were prominent artists of the time. The style celebrates the ordinary or commonplace.
What is Pop Art?
The path of a point moving through space.
What is line?
The repetition of elements in an artwork. Can be achieved through use of line, shape, and/or color.
What is pattern?
You start with a ball of clay. You stick your finger into the ball and pinch the sides to make a bowl. This technique is called....
Pinch pot.
Color + white.
What is a tint?
Using little dots to show value.
What is stippling?
The way something feels or appears to feel.
What is texture?
Uses opposing elements such as complementary colors or opposite values?
What is coil method?
You mix a primary color with this to get a tertiary color.
What is an adjacent secondary color?
Balance that is in a circular design. It has many lines of symmetry.
What is radial balance?
The area in which art is organized.
What is space?
Happens when parts of a visual are arranged in an aesthetically pleasing way. There are two kinds: formal (symmetrical) and informal (not exactly symmetrical but still has equal weight throughout the image).
What is balance?
The place where clay is fired to become ceramic.
What is a kiln?
Three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
What is an analogous color scheme?
Balance that has one line of symmetry.
What is symmetrical balance?
Has depth, length, and width and resides in space. Is perceived as 3D.
What is form?
The alternation of elements, often with defined intervals between them.
What is rhythm?
The special paint we use on ceramics. It must have a second firing when you are done.
What is glaze?
Three colors that are equally spaced on the color wheel.
What is a triad color scheme?
The little decorations on the ends of letters in a typeface.
What is a serif?