Color
Vocabulary
Value
Shape, Form, and Space
Mediums
100

The three primary colors used to mix and make secondary colors.

What are red, blue, and yellow?

100

Artwork in which the visual weight is distributed evenly across the composition, seems stable, makes the viewer feel comfortable, and is pleasing to the eye.

What is balance?

100

An element of art that refers to the lightness and darkness of a color.

What is value?

100

Name 3 geometric shapes.

triangle, rectangle, square, or circle

100

Water and a brush are essential for this medium to work.

What is paint?

200

The combination of blue mixed with red.

What is violet (purple)?

200

The way in which different elements of an artwork are combined or arranged.

What is composition?

200

These are lighter values (adding white to color).

What is a tint?

200

A round form that is three dimensional.

What is a sphere?

200

This medium is best used for blending colors without the mess.

What are colored pencils?

300

These colors that convey the feeling of high temperature. (Red, yellow, orange)

What are warm colors?

300

The use of opposites near or beside one another. (i.e. Light and Dark and Rough and Smooth)

What is Contrast?

300

The areas of an object where light does not hit.

What are shadows?

300

 A three dimensional square.

What is a cube?

300

Great for art, writing, math, etc. 

Especially if you make a mistake.

What is an eraser?

400

Blue, green, and purple.

What are Cool colors?

400

The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

What is perspective?

400

Ranging from the lightest to darkest colour.

What is a value scale?

400

Organic Shapes are natural and freeform. Name 5 in 10 seconds.

What is tree, leaf, petals, grass, puddle, pond, cloud, rocks etc?

400

A type of paint that dries quickly and looks professional when finished.

What is acrylic paint?

500

Colors that are opposite on the color wheel.

What are complimentary colors?

500

The lightness or darkness of a color.

What is value?

500

These are darker values (adding black to a color).

What are shades?

500

In perspective, objects closest to you are smaller or bigger?

What is bigger?

500

Black crumbly drawing material made of carbon and often used for sketching and under-drawing for paintings.

What is charcoal?