Color
The three primary colors used to mix and make secondary colors.
What are red, blue, and yellow?
Artwork in which the visual weight is distributed evenly across the composition, seems stable, makes the viewer feel comfortable, and is pleasing to the eye.
What is balance?
An element of art that refers to the lightness and darkness of a color.
What is value?
Name 3 geometric shapes.
triangle, rectangle, square, or circle
A stick of colored non-drying oil and wax used for drawing.
What is an oil pastel?
The combination of blue mixed with red.
What is violet (purple)?
The way in which different elements of an artwork are combined or arranged.
What is composition?
These are lighter values (adding white to color).
What is a tint?
A round form that is three dimensional.
What is a sphere?
This medium is best used for blending colors without the mess.
What are colored pencils?
These colors that convey the feeling of high temperature. (Red, yellow, orange)
What are warm colors?
The use of opposites near or beside one another. (i.e. Light and Dark and Rough and Smooth)
What is Contrast?
The areas of an object where light does not hit.
What are shadows?
A three dimensional square.
What is a cube?
Great for art, writing, math, etc.
Especially if you make a mistake.
What is an eraser?
Colors that are opposite on the color wheel.
What are complimentary colors?
The lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
These are darker values (adding black to a color).
What are shades?
In perspective, objects closest to you are smaller or bigger?
What is bigger?
Black crumbly drawing material made of carbon and often used for sketching and under-drawing for paintings.
What is charcoal?
Cool colors are what 3 colors?
What are blue, green, and purple?
The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
What is perspective?
Stippling, cross-hatching, smooth blending, scribbling, etc.
What are techniques to create value?
Shapes that aren't recognizable and are made up.
What is an organic shape?
A type of paint that uses the following techniques: washes, wet-on-wet, dry brush, wet on dry. If you hold up your paper, the color will drip if not dry.
What is watercolor paint?