Elements
Colour Wheel
Principles
Design Chart
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100

A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.

What is line?

100

Primary colours

What are red, blue and yellow?

100
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of action.
What is movement?
100
A feeling that all of the parts are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?
100

Red + Blue =

What is purple?

200

Any three dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.

What is form?

200

Secondary colours

What are orange, green and violet?

200

Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.

What is emphasis?

200
A large difference between two things.
What is contrast?
200

The complimentary colour of blue.

What is orange?

300

Smoothness, roughness, softness in visual form.

What is texture?

300

Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of...

What are analogous colours?

300

The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colours and other elements of design to create interest in a work of art.

What is variety?

300

Common name for colour.

What is hue?

300

The complimentary colour of red.

What is green?

400
Lightness and darkness
What is value?
400

Mixing a secondary and primary colour creates this.

What is a tertiary/intermediate colour?

400

The relation of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.

What is proportion?

400

When a variety of elements work well together.

What is unity?

400
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
500
Negative and positive
What is space?
500

Greys, ochres and browns.

What are neutrals?

500

A feeling of stability with shapes in an artwork.

What is balance?

500

Showing visual action and repetition in an artwork.

What is movement/rhythm?

500
When you add white to hue you create this.
What is tint?