Basic Art Vocabulary

Crosshatching

• Drawing technique using sets of crisscrossing, parallel, and overlapping lines.

• Surface of a drawing.

• Illustrations ranging from one panel to a series of panels covering humorous to the political.

• Elements in a work of art to create a sense of stability.

Balance

• Elements of art that refers to light and dark areas.

• Combine elements in a work of art to create size relationship of elements to the whole artwork and to each other.

• The different ways the elements of art can be used in a work of art.

• Elements in a work of art to create a sense of stability.

Analogous colors

• Colors that are opposite from each other on the color wheel.

• Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

• The elements and principles of art.

• Surface of a drawing.

Value

• The basic components, or building blocks used to create works of art.

• Distance around, between, above, below, and within an object.

• The elements and principles of art.

• Elements of art that refers to light and dark areas.

Texture

• Surface of a drawing.

• Appeals to the sense of touch.

• Drawing technique using sets of crisscrossing, parallel, and overlapping lines.

• Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

Monochromatic

• Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

• Only using one hue plus neutrals.

• One color plus two hues on either side of that color’s complement.

• When designers and artists use combinations of colors to get certain results.

Shade

• Adding black to a hue.

• Adding white to a hue.

• Using only one color in a painting.

• A powdered substance.

Tint

• Mix any shade of gray with the hue.

• Adding white to a hue.

• Refers to the quality of a light in a color.

• When designers and artists use combinations of colors to get certain results.

Primary Colors

• Red, Blue, and Green

• Red, Blue, and Yellow.

• Red,Orange, and Yellow

• Red, Green, and Violet

Secondary Colors

• Green, Orange, and Red

• Green, Yellow, and Blue

• Green, Violet, and Blue

• Green, Violet, and Orange.