Color Wheel
Elements of Art
Drawing
Vocab
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100

Red, Yellow, Blue

What are the Primary Colors?

100

A mark drawn with a pointed moving tool

What is a Line?

100
The opposite of a vertical line; a line that is parallel to the horizon

What is a Horizontal Line?

100

A folder or collection  of your artwork that highlights your experience

What is a Portfolio?

100

A line that goes straight up and down

What is a Vertical Line?

200

Colors like blue, green, violet that remind you of the sea or winter

What are Cool Colors?

200

A 2D (flat) area that is defined in some way, usually by lines

What is a Shape?

200

A quick, rough drawing that is a plan for the finished drawing

What is a Sketch?

200

2D visual repetition (colors, lines, or shapes can repeat)

What is a Pattern?

200

In perspective, this is a point on the horizon where all parallel lines seem to meet

What is a Vanishing Point?

300

Colors like red and green that sit across from each other on the Color Wheel

What are Complimentary Colors?

300

How things feel or look like they might feel if you touched them

What is Texture?

300
Often called "shading", this Element of Art is used in drawing to show the lightness and darkness of an object

What is Value?

300

A plan or arrangement of elements in a work of art

What is a Design?

300

Pencil, paint, charcoal, clay or any other material used to make art

What is Medium (or Media)?

400

When an artwork is created with only 1 color plus the tints and shades of that hue (ex: red, pink, maroon)

What is Monochromatic?

400

3D objects like cones, cubes, and spheres

What is a Form?

400

A line that shows or creates the outer edges of a shape

What is an Outline?

400

A 3D framework (can be wood, metal, foil, or any supporting material) used inside of a sculpture

What is an Armature?

400

The Element of Art that refers to the area of emptiness around, between, or within objects

What is Space?

500

Color like red and red-orange that sit next to each other on the Color Wheel

What are Analogous Colors?

500

This Element of Art comes from reflective light

What is Color?

500

A graphic system used to create the illusion of depth on a 2D surface

What is Perspective?

500

A 3D work of art made of many pieces (usually junk, scraps, or other found items) assembled together

What is Assemblage?

500

Lines that create boundaries that separate one area from another in a drawing

What are Contour Lines?