A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.
What is line?
A way of combining visual elements to produce a sense of motion.
What is movement?
Shapes such as Circle, Square, and Triangle.
What is geometric shapes?
How light reflects off an object.
What is color?
A 3D shape
What is form?
Secondary colors
What are orange, green and purple?
The spot where the viewers eye goes first. Has the most importance. Includes the focal point.
What is emphasis?
An example of this is a caricature: when the person's head is huge but the body is small.
What is being out of scale?
A feeling that all of the elements are working together as a team - the quality of wholeness.
What is unity?
surface quality of an object
What is texture?
Colors that are NEXT to eachother on the color wheel
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?
Other word for color.
What is hue?
What is radial symmetry?
Lightness and darkness of color
What is value?
Mixing a secondary and primary color creates this.
What is a tertiary/intermediate color?
The size relation of one object to another, or to the artwork as a whole.
What is proportion?
A one of a kind, natural, often found in nature.
What is organic shapes?
When you add black to a hue you create this.
What is shade?
Can be described as negative and positive
What is space?
Colors across from eachother on the color wheel.
What are complimentary colors?
A type of balance that has more weight on one side than the other.
What is asymmetrical balance?
The technique of creating a 3D area on a 2D plane.
What is perspective?
A single element repeated.