Circle of Color
Tools
Elements of Art
Color Mixing
Principles of Design
100
Red, yellow, and blue
What are the primary colors?
100
Hand held tool with bristles on one end used for painting
What is a paintbrush?
100
A mark on a surface. It can be straight, curved, thick, thin, or jagged or smooth.
What is a line?
100
It's what you get when you mix red and yellow
What is orange?
100

Visual weight

What is Balance?

200
Orange, green, and purple
What are the secondary colors?
200

Sharpened tool that marks with graphite

What is a pencil?

200
There are two types: geometric and free-form
What is a shape?
200
It's what you get when you mix blue and yellow
What is green?
200

The element in the work that the viewer sees first

What is Emphasis?
300
A tool that helps artists understand how colors work together
What is the color wheel?
300

Paint that is diluted with H2O

what are watercolors?

300
Artworks contain positives and negatives of this
What is space?
300
It's what you get when you mix red and blue
What is purple?
300

A large difference between elements

What is Contrast?

400
One group of colors includes reds, oranges, and yellows while the other group contains greens, blues, and purples
What are the warm and cool colors?
400

A rectangle divided into boxes that are colored with progressively darker shades

What is a value scale?

400

The way something feels or looks like it feels

What is texture?

400
It's what you get when you add white to a color
What is a tint?
400

When the elements in the art work are all very different

What is Variety?

500
These colors are directly across the color wheel from one another. An example would be red and green.
What are complementary colors?
500

colored pigments mixed with wax encased in wood

What are color pencils?

500
The brightness or darkness of a color
What is value?
500
It's what you get when you add black to a color
What is a shade?
500

When the basic motif repeats

What is Pattern?