Elements
A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
The materials and tools used by the artist to create a work of art
What is Media/Medium?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action.
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.
What is emphasis?
A large difference between two things.
What is contrast?
The mixture of yellow and red.
What is orange?
The use of the same visual element a number of times in the same composition
What is repetition
An area that stands out from the space next to or around it because of a defined boundary or because of a difference of value, color, or texture
What is shape?
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colors and other elements of design to create interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
Common name for color.
What is hue?
The mixture of blue and yellow.
What is green?
This is a line horizontally oriented at your eye level regardless of the viewer’s position
What is the horizon line?
The area of an object represented in art that receives the greatest amount of direct light
What is a highlight
The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is proportion?
When a variety of elements work well together.
What is harmony?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
The position from which one views a scene without moving his or her body or eyes in order to create a specific perspective
What is point of view?
The actual or the illusion of tactile value on the surface of an area as created by nature or by an artist through a manipulation of the visual elements
What is texture?
The sense of distribution of perceived visual weights that offset one another
What is balance?
A visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
When you add white to hue you create this.
What is tint?