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Colour Theory

100

Red, Yellow and Blue are all members of this colour family

What are Primary Colours?

200

Mixing red + yellow, yellow + blue and red + blue makes this family of colours

What are secondary colours?

300

We map out all the colours we can mix on this shape.

What is the colour wheel?

What is a colour circle?

400

Mixing all the colours together makes this colour.

What is black?

What is chromatic grey?

500

This colour is the result of all the colours combining in the atmosphere, and is only split using a prism.

what is white?

Elemental

100

This element is flat and has no open sides. We give these elements names like Circle and Square.

what is shape?

200

This element tells us about the surface of an object. We use words like rough, smooth and soft to describe this element.

What is texture?

300

We use this element to describe the lightness and darkness of colours and objects in artworks.

what is value?

400

This element is how we describe shapes when they turn three dimensional

What is form?

500

This element is the building block for all aspects of compositions. Without it, art would be difficult to make.

what is line?

Principles

100

This principle describes a focal point in an artwork. It is the thing the artist wants us to look at.

What is emphasis?

200

This principle describes how symmetrical a composition is. It can either be the same on both sides or not the same on either side.

What is balance?

300

This principle describes how many times an object gets repeated throughout an artwork.

what is Rhythm?

400

This principle describes how finished an artwork feels. 

What is Unity/Harmony?

500

This principle describes how your eyes move around the painting OR how the artist creates the illusion of __________?

What is movement?

Techniques

100

Using a brush and acrylic medium, we creates _______

What is painting?

200

Using this technique, an artist applies graphite to paper to make this. 

What is drawing?

300

Carving into styrofoam creates an image that we can then stamp onto another paper. This example is one of many ________________ processes?

Printmaking

400

This technique involves combining balls of clay together to build up an artwork.

What is sculpture?

500

This photographic process uses chemicals on paper and the power of the sun to create blue pictures.

What is cyanotype?

Colour Scheming...

100

This scheme focuses on opposite colours of the colour wheel. These colours  ________ each other.

What are complimentary colours?

200

Blue, Green and Purple are all members of this colour temperature

what is cold/cool colours?

300

Red, Orange and Yellow all belong to this colour temperature.

what are warm colours?

400

This colour scheme only uses the light and dark versions of ONE colour 

what is monochromatic?

500

3 to 5 colours that follow each other on the colour wheel is known as this colour scheme.

What are analogous colours?