Elements
A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
Primary colors
What are red, blue and yellow?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action. An arrangement in art designed to lead the eye, sometimes with a variety of repetitions.
What is movement?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?
Red + Blue =
What is violet?
Any three dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is form?
Secondary colors
What are orange, green and violet?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention. Also called the focal point or dominance.
What is emphasis?
arrangement of opposite elements in a piece so as to create visual interest, excitement, and drama.
What is contrast?
The complimentary color of blue.
What is orange?
The feel or appearance of a surface or object, tactile or implied. Examples: Smoothness, roughness, softness.
What is texture?
Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of...
What are analogous colors?
Lines, colors, or shapes repeated over and over in a planned way.
What is pattern?
Common name for color.
What is hue?
The complimentary color of red.
What is green?
The range of lightness and darkness or something.
What is value?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is proportion/scale?
All parts are working together as a team.
What is harmony?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
The dimensions of height, depth, and width
within which all things exist and move.
What is space?
Mixing two complimentary colors makes this.
What are neutrals?
Achieved when all parts of a composition appear to have equal weight. It seems stable.
What is balance?
A visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
When you add white to hue you create this.
What is tint?