Art I - Spring 2021

The (sometimes visual) line separating the sky from the ground or the viewers eye line.

The painting technique of applying small dots of colors so that from a distance they visually blend together.

The depiction of natural scenery in art. Mountains, valleys, bodies of water, fields, forests, and coasts...etc.

Art with energetic, gestural, intuitive mark-making and careful placement of shapes, forms, lines, colors and patterns.

This art principle gives a sense of cohesiveness by repeating the same or similar elements throughout a composition.

To lower the intensity of a color (rather than using black), you should mix it with that colors...?

Art that is only made up of the elements and principles of design.

This Russian artist was fascinated with color and he began to explore the relationship between music and color.

The part of picture or photograph that is nearest to the observer.

The intentional arrangement of elements in a work of art.

A scale that shows the gradual change from light to dark

This art principle helps guide the viewer’s eye throughout and around a composition.

Art that focuses on the expression of the artists thoughts, feelings/emotions, and mood.

This is a form of 3D drawing, which is set out using 30-degree angles - we used dotted paper.

The middle distance of a painting or photograph. The objects in this area appear smaller.

This type of line in made by never lifting your drawing instrument from the page

This watercolor techniques refers to a single even layer of watercolor.

This art principle gives a composition structure by creating visual weight that feels stable

This watercolor techniques is created from a wash of two or more colors that blend where they meet.

This Post-Impressionist Artist painted "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte".

Famous for his bright and bold paintings of comic strip cartoons using Ben Day dots.

Objects farther away are much smaller in size, duller in color, and contain less detail.

Water-based paints created by suspending color pigments in water

An art movement inspired by popular culture of the 1950s and 60s.

Art based on reality but has been altered by simplifying, exaggerating, breaks into shapes, changes the color, etc.

A drawing technique used by artists to make an object look three-dimensional or life-like

This artist created some of the most iconic images of the 20th Cent. using a silkscreen method. ex. Campbells Soup Cans

This type of drawing and painting is created from instinct. You must free your mind to express freely.

Art that represents objects the way they actually look

A choice of color in an artwork that has no basis in the realistic appearance of the object.

When this element is sprinkled on top of wet watercolor and absorbs the pigment it create a speckled effect once dry.

This type of drawing is made by looking only at the subject and not your drawing page.

Working wet watercolor directly on wet or damp watercolor before it dries