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Line and Point
Line
Shape
Shape, Mass and Volume
Texture and Value
100
A dot or small, circular shape.
What is a Point?
100
An actual or implied line that defines the outer limits of a shape that is either three-dimensional or two-dimensional.
What is Contour Line?
100
A two-dimensional area with defined or implied boundaries that can be measured by height and width.
What is Shape?
100
A dominant shape on a ground.
What is Positive Shape?
100
The actual or implied tactile quality of a surface.
What is Texture?
200
A series of connected points.
What is Line?
200
Line that conveys the energy of the artist's hand as it moves across the surface.
What is Gestural Line?
200
A regular or standard shape such as a rectangle, triangle, circle, etc.. often human made.
What is Geometric Shape?
200
The shape "left over" around a dominant shape.
What is Negative Shape?
200
The illusion of tactility through the arrangement of lines, colors and other design elements?
What is Invented Texture?
300
A series of thin parallel lines.
What is Hatching?
300
A shape that resembles irregular shapes often found in nature.
What is Organic or Biomorphic Shape?
300
A shape that lacks clear edges and is indistinct.
What is Amorphous Shape?
300
The tactile quality of the material used to make art/artifact.
What is Actual Texture?
400
A series of points made by a tool moving across a surface.
What is Actual Line?
400
Crisscrossing straight lines, one on top of another.
What is Cross Hatching?
400
A shape on a background.
What is Figure?
400
Actual or illusionary three-dimensional bulk.
What is Mass?
400
The tactile quality of elements in art rendered in a way that gives the impression of texture.
What is Implied Texture?
500
A series of points that the eye recognizes as a line.
What is Implied Line?
500
A Background on which marks , shapes or figures are placed.
What is Ground?
500
The measurable area that an object occupies, its height, width, and depth.
What is Volume?
500
The relative degree of light to dark.
What is Value?