Elements
A mark that can vary in direction, thickness, or color.
What is line?
What is shape?
red, blue and yellow
What are primary colors?
Can be symmetrical or asymmetrical.
What is balance?
visually interesting elements that keep your eye traveling around the artwork
What is movement?
Any three dimensional object that can be measured by height, width and depth.
What is form?
implied depth in 2D artwork
What is space?
Secondary colors
What is made by mixing primary colors?
Area in a work of art that catches and holds the viewer's attention.
What is emphasis?
Visual tempo or beat, when pattern meets movement
What is rhythm?
simulated or actual qualities of a surface
What is texture?
Reflected light.
What is color?
Blue, Blue-green, Green is an example of...
What are analogous colors?
Opposite elements used to create variety or emphasis.
What is contrast?
Created by isolating elements.
What is emphasis?
Lightness and darkness of a color, develops illusion of form
What is value?
texture that is drawn, you cannot feel it
What is implied/simulated texture?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary color?
The relationship of one object to another in size, amount, number or degree.
What is proportion?
Created with elements placed close together.
What is unity?
Created with linear perspective.
What is space?
line of sight, perspective to the viewer, all angles lead here
What is vanishing point?
What are complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary.
Similar elements that hold the composition together
What is unity?
arrangement of elements in an artwork
What is composition?