Elements of Art
A path made by a moving point through space. It is one-dimensional and can vary in width, direction and length.
What is line?
Materials used to create artwork.
What are mediums?
The visual pathways and the sense of direction within an artwork.
What is movement?
The place to put sketches and weekly bell work during your art journey?
What is our sketchbook?
Placing elements with distinct qualities side by side, such as light versus dark, large versus small, or rough versus smooth.
What is contrast?
What Ms. Perez does to get your attention.
What is hold five fingers up?
The relationship of certain elements to the whole and to each other. -- Big to small; sizing.
What is proportion?
Can be squiggly, wavy, straight, dotted. Used to contour and start and establish the shape and form of things.
What is line?
Where we put unfinished work.
What is the storage closet?
Negative and positive areas used in artwork is called?
What is space?
Flat, enclosed areas that are two-dimensional.
What is shape?
The way of combining elements to add a feeling of equality or stability to a work of art.
What is balance?
The use of recurring objects to guide the eye through a piece of work.
What is rhythm?
Three things Ms. Perez does not like done in the classroom.
What is...
Running, fighting, yelling, talking while she is talking, breaking materials, sleeping, putting gum under the tables/on chairs, lazy work, etc.
It is perceived by the way light reflects off a surface.
What is color?
The brightness, purity or strength of a color.
What is intensity?
Repeated arrangements or sequences.
What is pattern?
What Ms. Perez looks for in our art.
What is craftsmanship?
Perceived smoothness, roughness, softness, furriness in visual art.
What is texture?
A way of establishing light and dark with a pencil or drawing utensil.
Shading
The use of different lines, shapes, textures, colors and other elements of design to create interest in a work of art.
What is variety?
Four things we must do before we leave.
What is put away sketchbooks, clean up materials, put away projects and tuck in chairs?