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?
Orange, green and violet
What are secondary colors?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is emphasis (focal point)?
A large difference between two colors, shapes or values.
What is contrast?
The complement of the color blue.
What is orange?
Can be tactile, visual or simulated as to how something may feel
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?
Another name for color.
What is hue?
To create a neutral color red, what color should you use?
What is green?
Lightness and darkness of a color
What is value?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
The use of contrasting objects, colors, or shapes creates this in a composition.
What is tension?
The arrangement of elements in a picture is called this.
What is a composition?
When you add black to a color you create this.
What is shade?
Negative and positive and refers to the illusion of depth in a picture
What is space?
Mixing two complementary colors makes this.
What are neutrals?
A feeling of stability in a composition.
What is balance?
A visual tempo or beat.
What is rhythm?
What is the color system we use in a traditional art room? (painting or drawing)
What is a subtractive system?