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?
A large difference between two things such as color, size, etc.
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
What is value?
Mixing a secondary color and a primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary or intermediate color?
The relationship 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?
Negative and positive
What is space?
Mixing two complementary colors makes this.
What is a neutral color (brown or gray?)
A type of balance that creates a feeling of stability with different shapes.
What is asymmetrical balance?
A visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
When you add white to hue you create this.
What is tint?