Making Color
Vocabulary
Value
Color Schemes
Art materials
100

The three primary colors used to make all other colors.

What are red, blue, and yellow?

100

This shows where the earth and the sky meet.

What is horizon line?

100

The term for when you add black to a color.

What is shade?

100

Red, yellow and blue

What are warm colors?

100

An art material made with oil and pigment in a stick form.  

What is oil pastel?

200

The type of color you get when you mix 2 primary colors together.

What is Secondary?
200

The area of a landscape that is closest to the viewer.

What is foreground?

200

The terms for adding white to a color to make it lighter.

What is a tint?

200

The cool colors.

What are blue, green, and violet?

200

A plastic based paint that is usually opaque.

What is acrylic paint?

300

The combination of blue mixed with red.

What is violet (purple)?

300

Cutting and gluing materials 

What is collage?

300

The areas of an object where light does not hit.

What are shadows?

300

Colors that are opposite from each other on the color wheel.

What are Complementary colors?

300

Animal fur used for needle felting. 

What is roving?

400

The type of color you get when you mix a primary with a secondary color.

What is a tertiary color?

400

When art has length, height, and width

What is 3D?

400

The area of an object where light is hitting it directly.

What are highlights?

400

Using the tints and shades of only one color.

What is Monochromatic?

400

Clay after it has been fired in the kiln. 

What is ceramic?

500

Correct names for all 6 tertiary colors.

What is red-orange, red-violet, blue-green, blue-violet, yellow-green, and yellow-orange?

500

Making marks with repetitive dots. 

What is stippling?

500

Normally a rectangle strip created by an artist that shows the a full range of value.

What is a value scale?

500

Three or four colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

What are analogous colors?

500

An artwork made with multiple different art materials.

What is mixed medium?