Elements
What is line?
A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What are red, blue and yellow?
Primary colours
What is movement?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action.
What is unity?
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is violet?
Red + Blue =
What is form?
Any three dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is orange, green and violet?
Secondary colours
What is emphasis?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is contrast?
A large difference between two things.
What is orange?
The complimentary colour of blue.
What is texture?
Smoothness, roughness, softness in visual
What are analogous colours?
Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of...
What is variety?
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colours and other elements of design to create interest in a work of art.
What is hue?
Common name for colour.
What is green?
The complimentary colour of red.
What is value?
Lightness and darkness
What is a tertiary/intermediate colour?
Mixing a secondary and primary colour creates this.
What is proportion?
The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is harmony?
When a variety of elements work well together.
What is shade?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is space?
Negative and positive
What are neutrals?
Mixing two complimentary colours makes this.
What is asymmetrical balance?
A feeling of stability with different shapes.
What is rhythm?
A visual tempo or beat.
What is tint?
When you add white to hue you create this.