Color
What are the primary colors?
Red, yellow and blue
Which element of art refers to how light or dark something is?
Value
What shading technique uses lines placed close together?
Hatching
What principle of design creates a focal point?
Emphasis.
What are the four S's?
Score, slip, stick and smooth
What are the secondary colors?
Orange, purple and green
Which element of art is created when a shape becomes three-dimensional?
Form
What shading technique uses crossing lines?
Cross-hatching
What principle happens when parts of an artwork feel visually equal?
Balance
What does wet-on-wet mean?
Applying wet paint to wet paper
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel are called what?
Complementary colors
Which element of art refers to how something feels or looks like it would feel?
Texture
What shading technique uses dots?
Stippling
Repeating visual elements creates what principle?
Pattern.
What happens when you mix two complimentary colors (example: Purple and yellow)?
It makes brown
What is the difference between a tint and a shade?
A tint is a color mixed with white. A shade is a color mixed with black
Name four elements of art
Any four: line, shape, form, color, value, texture, space.
What is the lightest area on an object called?
Highlight.
What principle helps all parts of an artwork feel connected?
Unity
What does leather hard mean?
Clay that is partially dry but still workable.
Name one pair of analogous colors.
Examples: red-orange-yellow, blue-blue green-green, yellow-green-yellow-orange.
What is the difference between shape and form?
Shape is two-dimensional; form is three-dimensional.
What is blending?
Smoothing values so they gradually transition from light to dark.
What principle of design guides the viewer’s eye through an artwork and creates a sense of action or flow?
Movement
What is bisque?
Clay that has gone through the first firing.