Color Theory
This color is made from mixing red and yellow together.
What is orange?
A rough draft of a drawing, typically done in pencil
What is a sketch?
Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel.
What are complimentary colors?
Historically made from animal hair attached to sticks, this is an important tool for any artist who likes to paint.
What is a paint brush?
By combining dry _________ paint with water, we can use it to create beautiful, less structured paintings!
What is watercolor?
This color is complimentary to the color red.
What is green?
The artistic process of making your drawing look 3d by adding darker and lighter colors based on where the light would hit whatever you're drawing.
What is shading?
A place where artists can display and sell their art.
What is a gallery?
A wooden tool containing graphite, commonly used by just about everyone.
What is a pencil?
A casual expression of imagination, usually done using a simple pencil and paper.
What is a drawing?
This tool is used to help us organize colors by similarity and visualize easily which colors to mix to get certain colors, and which colors are complimentary to each other.
What is the color wheel?
When you are sketching, it is best to make ______ marks, because other kinds of marks would be hard to erase.
What is light?
This word means "only one color", and is fittingly used to describe images that only use variations of one color.
What is monochrome?
A pigmented liquid that can be applied thinly, and dries down solidly and retaining it's color.
The art of creating 3-dimensional figures using clay, stone, marble, or even household junk!
What is sculpture?
What is sculpting?
One color can appear to be a different color depending on its _______.
What is context?
What is surrounding colors?
What is environment?
Simple exercises to get ready to draw before you start an actual drawing. While these are kind of silly, they help us practice important skills, and keep our hands healthy!
What are warm-ups?
The gradual shift in hue from one color to another.
What is gradient?
This common classroom staple that used to be made using horse hooves. (most of it is not anymore, no worries!)
What is glue?
In this art form, people create new images using clippings of magazines, paper, stickers, and glue.
What is collage?
What is a collage?
While value refers to the lightness and darkness of a color, __________ refers to the strength of a color.
What is saturation?
While this can be difficult to draw, ________ is something that allows us to capture movement in our sketches.
What is gesture?
The term for using hand-eye coordination to draw only the outline of something.
What is contour drawing?
What is contour?
This material was first documented in Lei-Yang, China during the Eastern Han period, and we still use it every day! _______ is the first material we get for almost every drawing we've made in this class!
What is paper?
This art can be perceived as bad, imperfect, and even ugly to some people (especially the artist who makes it), but fantastic and inspiring to others.
ALL ART!!!