The Elements of Art
Color
General Art Knowledge
General Art Knowledge 2
The Principles of Art
100
The mark or path of a moving point.
What is a line?
100
Red, yellow, and blue.
What are the primary colors?
100
When one object partially covers another.
What is overlapping?
100
Artwork created through the use of computer technology.
What is digital art?
100
An artist can create this by equalizing the visual weight in an artwork.
What is balance?
200
How smooth or rough a surface feels or looks like.
What is texture?
200
Green, orange, and purple(violet).
What are the secondary colors?
200
How the elements are arranged in an artwork.
What is composition?
200
The art process of making multiple copies from a single image.
What is printmaking?
200
This is created by repeating design elements like line, color, texture, and shape in a planned way.
What is pattern?
300
One way to create the illusion of this is to use linear perspective.
What is space?
300
The main colors that you select for your artwork.
What is a color scheme?
300
The artist's choice of materials.
What is media?
300
When an artist uses the power of independent thought or constructive imagination they are being this.
What is original?
300
A sense of oneness or wholeness.
What is unity?
400
3-D forms that are carved, constructed, or modeled.
What are sculptures?
400
Opposites on the color wheel.
What are complementary colors?
400
The part of the picture plane that appears closest to you.
What is the foreground?
400
Using skill, knowledge, neatness, and effort.
What is craftsmanship?
400
This refers to size relationships.
What is proportion?
500
A circle, square, triangle, and pentagon are considered to be this type of shape.
What is geometric?
500
Red, orange, and yellow.
What are the warm colors?
500
The process of an image being captured and recorded by light.
What is photography?
500
Your own imagination, your own photograph, or your own observation.
What is a primary source?
500
This is created by bringing greater attention to a particular part of your design.
What is emphasis?
600
A chart used by artists to compare lights and darks in a design.
What is a value scale?
600
A color scheme that uses only one color with its tints, tones, and shades.
What is a monochromatic color scheme?
600
A basic guide to help you decide where to place your focal point in a design.
What is the rule of thirds?
600
Opaque.
What are art materials that you cannot see through?
600
a line in a perspective drawing that separates sky from earth.
What is a horizon line?