Elements of Art
Principles of Design
Art Media and Techniques
Color Theory
Potpourri
100
Red and green; blue and orange; yellow and violet
What are the complementary colors?
100
This principle of design refers to the way of combining elements of art to produce the look of action.
What is movement?
100
This medium is also known as colored chalk.
What is pastels?
100
Red, Yellow and Blue.
What are the Primary Colors?
100
This type of art has height, width and depth.
What is 3-dimensional, or 3-D art?
200
The most basic of elements... a dot moving in space. (some are straight, some are curved, some are horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, some are zig zagged.)
What is a line?
200
This principle of design refers to the repetition of an element or object.
What is pattern?
200
This is a sculpture medium that uses paper and rags dipped in wheat paste over a form.
What is paper-mache?
200
Blue plus yellow.
What is green?
200
This type of drawing involves a vanishing point, a horizon line and orthogonal lines.
What is perspective drawing?
300
This element is a surface change, for example rough, smooth, bumpy,etc.
What is texture?
300
This principle of design refers to the way the elements of art are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work. It can be symmetrical, asymmetrical, or radial.
What is balance?
300
A simple, quick drawing done to catch the chief features and a general impression.
What is a sketch?
300
Green, Orange and Violet.
What are the secondary colors?
300
A piece of artwork an artist makes using himself or herself as its subject, typically drawn or painted from a reflection in a mirror.
What is a self-portrait?
400
The element that refers to the lightness and darkness that falls upon a subject.
What is value?
400
This principle of design refers to the quality of wholeness or oneness that is achieved through the effective use of the elements.
What is unity?
400
A picture or design created by adhering such basically flat elements as paper, photographs, cloth, string, etc., to a flat surface.
What is collage?
400
The use of black to darken a color.
What is shades?
400
This is white mixed with another color
What is a tint?
500
Black, white, gray and browns
What are neutral colors?
500
A visual tempo or beat, this principle of design refers to a repetition of elements of art to produce the look and feel of movement.
What is rhythm?
500
This type of art work attempts a photographic likeness of the subject matter.
What is realistic?
500
Colors beside one another on the color wheel are said to be this.
What are analogous colors?
500
This is a shape that is not geometric
What is an organic shape?