Introduction to Line
A long thin mark. A moving point through space.
What is a line?
Variations in the darkness and lightness of a color made by adding or removing the color.
What is shading?
The space not occupied by an object or figure but circulating in and around it, contributing to the total effect of the composition.
What is negative space?
Those colors in which blue is dominant.
What are cool colors?
The reoccurrence of color, shapes, textures, or lines throughout a visual composition that can develop a sequence or pattern.
What is repetition?
Lines with little variation that describe the outer edges of shapes which appear flat.
What is an outline?
The technique of gently mixing two or more values of color to create a gradual transition or to soften lines.
What is blending?
Perspective in which all parallel lines converge to two vanishing points on the horizon line.
What is two-point perspective?
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel and are closely related.
What are analogous colors?
A feeling of balance attained when the visual units on either side of a vertical axis are actually different but are placed in the composition to create a "felt" balance of the total work.
What is asymmetrical balance?
Lines that define the outer edges of forms and the surfaces within a form such as shapes or wrinkles and folds.
What are contour lines?
Shading using closely spaced, parallel lines used to suggest light and shadow.
A technique in which the artist creates the illusion of depth by placing one object in front of another.
What is overlapping?
A duller value of a hue made by adding a small amount of gray to it.
What is a tone?
A principle of design in which one element, or a combination of elements, creates more attention than anything else in the composition.
What is emphasis?
Lines that suggest rather than clearly define.
What are implied lines?
A technique of shading using numerous tiny dots.
What is stippling?
A point on the eye level line, toward which parallel lines are made to recede and meet in a perspective drawing.
What is a vanishing point?
On the color wheel, a hue combined with hues on either side of its complement to create a color scheme.
What is a split complementary color scheme?
A principle of design concerned with the inclusion of differences in the elements of a composition to offset unity and add interest to an artwork.
What is variety?
A quick drawing that captures the weight, mass, and movements of the body with only a few lines while still containing a great deal of information.
What is a gesture drawing?
An arrangement of objects an artist uses to draw or paint.
What is a still life?
Perspective created by the diminishing of color intensity to lighter and duller hues to give the illusion of distance.
What is aerial perspective?
Colors produced by mixing a primary color and the adjacent secondary color on the color wheel.
What are intermediate colors?
An art historical movement that explores the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary.
What is Surrealism?