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.
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? or What id focal point?
A large difference between two things.
What is contrast?
The complementary color of blue.
What is orange?
Smoothness, roughness, softness in visual art.
What is texture?
Blue, blue-green, green is an example of...
What are analogous colors?
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 complementary color of red.
What is green?
Lightness and darkness; a range of grays from white to black.
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?
When a variety of elements work well together.
What is harmony?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is a shade?
Negative and positive; the area around and between objects.
What is space?
Mixing two complementary colors makes these.
What are neutrals? What are chromatic grays?
A feeling of stability created with different shapes; when both sides along an axis are different but feel comfortable in terms of visual weight.
What is asymmetrical balance?
A visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
When you add white to a hue you create this.
What is a tint?