Art Terms
Line, shape, color, texture, value, space, form
What are the Elements of Art?
red, orange, yellow
What are warm colors?
Score and slip
What are techniques you use to attach pieces of clay together?
Salt, plastic wrap, rubbing alcohol
What are a few materials you can use to create various watercolor techniques?
Figures/sculpture that is only slightly raised from the surface of the background.
What is low relief sculpture?
Balance, movement, pattern, contrast, rhythm, emphasis, unity
What are the Principles of Design?
green, blue, purple
What are cool colors?
An oven for clay.
What is a kiln?
Commonly used to create clouds in a watercolor painting.
What is the lifting technique?
Ancient artwork that is a good example of low relief sculpture that we observed in class.
What are the Egyptian hieroglyphs?
The use of symbols in an artwork to convey meaning.
What is symbolism in art?
opposite colors:
green and red
blue and orange
yellow and purple
What are complementary colors?
About 2000 degrees
What is the temperature clay needs to reach to harden?
Overlapping shapes, size, placement, value or color, linear perspective, detail
What are some techniques you can use to create the illusion of space in a painting/artwork?
When pieces are attached to create a sculpture/artwork.
What is the additive process in art?
sketching, proportion, gesture drawing, blending & shading, cross hatching, stippling
What are drawing techniques?
3-4 colors close to each other on the color wheel that are similar to each other.
What are analogous colors?
Paint for clay that when fired creates a colored glass-like coating.
What is glaze?
Sculpture that moves
What is kinetic sculpture?
A drawing technique used to make artworks look more 3D and realistic by using a vanishing point.
What is one- and two-point perspective art?
you get neutral colors when these colors are mixed.
What happens when you mix complementary/opposite colors?
Plastic, bone dry, greenware, leather hard, bisqueware, glazed
What are the different stages of clay?