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A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface, a moving dot.
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Art Vocab
| definition | term |
|---|---|
| Is a visual explanation of a text, concept, or process. | Illustration |
| A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface, a moving dot. | line |
| Line communicates the boundaries of an object or parts of an object. | Contour lines |
| The thickness or thinness of a line, line quality can be used to create the illusion of form. | Line quality |
| Lines that follow the contours of the form of the object, these lines can be vertical, horizontal, or both. | cross-contour lines |
| An enclosed line or closed contour | Shape |
| Shapes that usually can be defined by a mathematical formula, usually have a name associated with them, and are typically man-made (examples: circle, square, triangle). | geometric shapes |
| Shapes that usually don't have a specific name associated with them are usually not man-made | organic shapes |
| Any three-dimensional object that can be height, weight, and depth | form |
| Have specific names associated with them and are typically man-made. (cone, cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.) | geometric form |
| Dont have a specific name associated with them and are typically derived from nature. | organic forms |
| The lightest values present on the surface of an illuminated form. | Highlight |
| The middle value of the local color of the object. | midtone |
| The most concentrated area of dark on an illuminated surface. The core of the shadow receives no illumination | core shadow |
| A dark shape that results from the placement of an opaque object in the path of a light source | cast shadow |
| The effect of light bouncing back from reflective surfaces-functions as fill-in light objects appear rounded by giving to the core of the shadow | reflected light |
| Produced when a wavelength of light strikes an object and reflects to the eyes. | color |
| Consists of three distinct parts- The Color Wheel, Color Values, and Color Schemes. | color theory |
| The color spectrum bent into a circle. | color wheel |
| Refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. | color value |
| Systematic ways that colors are put together in artworks according to their arrangement on the color wheel. Colors that create harmony or unity in a composition. | color schemes |
| The pure color. | hue |
| Refers to the degree of purity of a color. The brightness or dullness of a color. Adjusted by adding gray or a complementary color to the original color. | Intensity(saturation) |
| A color mixed with white | tint |
| A color mixed with grey. | tone |
| Color mixed with black. | shade |
| Red, yellow, and blue are primary colors. These colors are used to mix all of the other colors in existence. These colors are formed by pigment and cannot be made by mixing any colors. | primary |
| Colors that are created by mixing equal parts of two primary colors. Therese are orange, green, and violet | secondary colors |
| These are created by mixing equal parts of a secondary color with a primary color. These colors are red-orange, yellow-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, and yellow-green. | tertiary(intermediate) colors |
| A color scheme that consists of just one color and the tints and shades of that color “Mono” means one and “chroma” refers to color. Monochromatic means “one color”. | monochromatic |
| Colors directly across from each other on the color wheel | complementary |
| Color schemes consist of 3-5 colors that are next to each other on the color wheel | analogous |
| The Element of Design that refers to the surface quality of the way an object feels- smooth, rough, bumpy, soft, etc. | texture |
| Is texture that is not real. The artist creates the illusion of textures through manipulation of the media. | Visual (implied) texture |
| The relative lightness or darkness of a surface. | value |
| The value of a shape determined by a shape’s normal color independent of any effects created by light. | local value |
| A system for organizing values. It consists of 9-10 values ranging from white to black, with several shades of gray in between. | value scale |
| The empty or open area between, around, above, below, and within objects | Space |
| The enclosed areas or objects or figures. | positive space |
| The space around or between objects in an artwork. | negative space |
| The closest zone of space in a three-dimensional illusion | foreground |
| The intermediate zone of space in a three-dimensional illusion. | middle ground |
| The most distant zone of space in a three-dimensional illusion. | background |
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