Art Vocabulary
The person who makes the pictures for books
Illustrator
They can be zig-zag, straight, wavy, thick or thin
Lines
Type of paint that needs water to activate the color
Watercolor
JC's favorite color
Green
A picture an artist makes of themselves
Self-portrait
True; they are flat
Made of wax and colored dye
Crayons
Famous artist known for "surrealist" self-portraits, often including her pets
Frida Kahlo
Artist who painted "Starry Night"
Vincent Van Gogh
Red, Yellow and Blue are what kind of colors?
Primary colors
The secondary colors are _____, _______, and ______
Orange, purple and green
Type of paint that is very thick, drys slowly and does not need water
Oil Paints
Art that does not represent real things accurately or at all
Abstract
When white is mixed with a color it is called a
Tint
Green
Value
Tool used to cut things into pieces
Scissors
A composition (type of art) made of nonliving things arranged together
Still-Life
A symbol for a company or product is called a
Logo
The part of the picture that looks the closest
Foreground
Form
Type of drawing tool made of burnt wood
Charcoal
An artwork depicting a large piece of land
Landscape
A texture you can see but not actually feel in a piece of artwork
Implied Texture