Watercolor
Elements of Art
Elements of Art (cont)
Perspective
Color Theory
100

A technique in watercolor painting that applies wet paint to a wetted surface, allowing the paint to bleed and spread easily.

What is wet on wet?

100

In art, this referes to the way an object feels (real) or looks like it would feel (implied).

What is texture?

100

The Seven Elements of Art.

What are line, shape, value, color, form, space, and texture?

100

Objects appear to get lighter and less defined the further they are in the background due to this.

What is atmospheric perspective?

100

Red, Blue, and Yellow are this type of color.

What are Primary Colors?

200

A technique in watercolor painting that applies water or paint to a dry surface, resulting in sharp lines and edges and solid coloration.

What is wet on dry?

200

When one object in a scene partially covers or hides another object.

What is overlapping?

200

The background of a piece, or the space surrounding the subject.

What is negative space?

200

In linear perspective, all the depth converges to one or more points, known as this.

What is vanishing point?

200

Orange, Green, and Purple are this type of color.

What are Secondary?
300
In watercolor, darkening a color requires adding black paint. To lighten a color, you instead use this. 

What is water?

300

In an art piece, this refers to an enclosed 2D element.

What is shape?

300

The darkness or lightness of a color.

What is value?

300

In this type of perspective drawing, all of the lines that show depth converge to a single point.

What is one-point perspective?

300

Tertiary Colors include any of these colors.

What are red-orange, red-violet, blue-green, blue-violet, yellow-green, or yellow-orange?

400

A technique in watercolor painting; Pure water is placed on the painting surface, and a paintbrush loaded with color is lightly dipped into it, creating soft gradients and sharp, contrasted edges.

What is charging?

400

Unnamed 3D forms that resemble forms found in nature are organic; Named 3D forms that can be described or measured mathematically are called these/

What are geometric forms?

400

A mark made with an artist's tool that connects two points, or the implied path a viewer's eye follows when looking at a piece.

What is line?

400

When drawing atmospheric perspective, objects further in the background should have these traits compared to the objects in the foreground.

What are lighter values, colors that approach the sky color, and less detail?
400

Two colors opposite from each other on the color wheel.

What are Complimentary Colors?

500

A watercolor technique where one layer of watercolor is placed down on the painting surface and allowed to dry, and then another layer is painted on top, creating regions of mixed or darkened color.

What is glazing?
500

When light hits an object, certain wavelengths of light are reflected and absorbed. The light that bounces off the object and reaches your eyes tells us this property of the object.

What is color?

500

The 3D equivalent of "Shape"; Refers to an element of art that has depth, or appears to have depth. It can be organic or geometric.

What is form?

500

DOUBLE POINTS!!

This trick can be used to find the center point of an object's face when drawing in perspective.

What is drawing a line from corner to corner to create an 'X'?

500

Analogous Colors.

What are any two or more colors that touch on the color wheel?