Color Basics
Types of Color
Color Schemes
Elements of Art
Other Vocabulary
100
This is another word for color.
What is hue?
100
Name the three primary colors.
What are red, yellow, and blue?
100

This is a color scheme that uses various tints and shades of a single color.

What is color scheme?

100
This is the element of art that refers to the area around objects in a work of art.
What is space?
100
This is a picture made out of words.
What is a concrete poem?
200
This refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
200
Name the three secondary colors.
What are orange, violet, and green?
200

This is a color scheme that uses colors that are next to each other with a single color in common. For example, red, red-orange, and red-violet.

What is ?

200
This is the element of art defined as enclosed space that is 2-D (two dimensional) or flat.
What is shape?
200
This is a quick drawing to record ideas.
What is a sketch?
300
This is created by adding white to a color.
What is a tint?
300
Name three warm colors.
What are red, yellow, and orange?
300
This is a color scheme that uses two colors that are directly opposite on the color wheel. For example, blue and orange.
What is complementary?
300
This is the element of art that refers to enclosed space that is 3-D.
What is form?
300
What are two ways to show depth in a work of art?
What are perspective, overlapping, value, or scale?
400
This is created by adding black to a color.
What is a shade?
400
Name three cool colors.
What are blue, violet, and green?
400
This is the color scheme that uses one color and the two colors on either side of its opposite on the color wheel. For example, violet, yellow-green, and yellow-orange.
What is split-complementary?
400
This element of art is defined as a mark on any surface, or a moving point.
What is line?
400
In one-point perspective, all directional lines go towards a single one of these.
What is a vanishing point?
500
This is a plan for organizing color in a work of art.
What is a color scheme?
500
Name the six intermediate colors.
What are red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, and yellow-orange?
500
This is the color scheme that uses three colors spaced at equal distances apart on the color wheel. For example, orange, violet, and green.
What is triad?
500
This is the element of art that is produced by light of various wavelengths.
What is color?
500
There are two types of this element of art: implied and actual.
What is texture?