Elements of Art
Orange and Blue
Yellow and Purple
What are Complementary Colors?
Examples are a brick wall is rough, a feather is soft, and water is smooth
What is texture?
Mix these two colors together to get purple
What are red and blue?
A piece of art made up of of non-living objects
What is a still-life?
Can refer to positive or negative or the positions of a landscape (foreground, middle ground, background)
What is space?
Complementary colors are the opposite of one another and have the most amount of this principle; when things are different from each other
What is contrast?
This type of paint is water soluble and can be reworked even after it has dried
What is watercolor?
This circular diagram is a guide to understanding colors and how to mix them
What is the color wheel?
A 3 dimensional shape
What is form?
If you saw a piece of artwork where a person's head what as big as the rest of his body, you might say it is out-of-(blank)
What is proportion?
You'd want to use this size brush when painting a background or large areas
What is large or big?
Blue, green, purple
What are cool colors?
A tint is when you add this to a color...hint: you won't find it on the color wheel
What is white?
Van Gogh's Starry Night shows this type of balance, when the sides are different but still equal
What is asymmetrical?
When you want to neutralize a color, you mix these types of colors together
What is complementary?
Organic or geometric
What is shape?
The term for the colors you achieve when you mix your primary colors together
What is Secondary?
Also the name of Queen Latifah song in the 90's, this term refers to when all parts work well together
What is Unity?
If you wanted to create a rough, uneven texture with watercolors you would use this technique using very little to no water
What is dry on dry?
Red-orange and Blue-green are known as these types of color; the third stage of mixing a primary and secondary color
What is tertiary?