Elements
Color Wheel
Principles
Ceramics
Misc.
100
Real or simulated surface qualities in an artwork, described as smooth, rough etc.
What is Texture?
100
Adding color to white paint creates this.
What is a TINT?
100
Achieved when all parts of a composition appear to have equal weight. It seems stable.
What is Balance?
100
Liquid clay, used to securely attach two pieces of clay together.
What is Slip?
100
The line that appears to divide the sky from the ground.
What is the Horizon Line?
200
Unique or specific to sculpture or 3D art.
What is Form?
200
Colors that are across from each on the color wheel such as, Yellow and Violet or Blue and Orange.
What are Complementary Colors?
200
Smooth and rough textures, large and small shapes, plain areas against areas of pattern.
What is Contrast?
200
Ceramic pieces that have NOT been fired.
What is Greenware?
200
Placing an object in front of and partially covering something else to suggest depth in a work of art.
What is Overlapping?
300
!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!! Lines that define the outer edgesof forms and surfaces within a form.
What is a CONTOUR LINE?
300
These are made by mixing 2 of the primary colors.
Secondary colors
300
Created when visual elements are repeated. May also be alternating, regular, flowing, progressive or jazzy.
What is Rhythm?
300
Method of heating the clay product to a high temperature in order to bring about a particular chemical change in the clay.
What is Firing?
300
A 2-dimensional composition made by gluing various materials such as paper, fabric etc... down on a firm flat surface.
What is a Collage?
400
Lightness or darkness of a color.
What is Value?
400
Colors obtained by mixing secondary colors AND primary colors.
What are Intermediate/Tertiary Colors?
400
Lines, colors, or shapes repeated over and over in a planned way.
What is a Pattern?
400
!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!! Silica, Alumina, and water
What are the "ingredients" in clay?
400
The tool used to apply ink to a printmaking surface.
What is a Brayer?
500
Geometric or Organic
What is Shape?
500
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, such as: Yellow, Yellow-Orange, and Orange.
What are Analogous Colors?
500
A type of balance in which both sides of a composition are balanced yet DIFFERENT.
What is Asymmetrical balance?
500
Refers to ceramic pieces that HAVE BEEN fired once without glaze.
What is Bisqueware?
500
Refers to the brightness or dullness of a color.
What is Intensity?