Art Vocabulary

An image cut off at the sides.

• Shading

• Cropping

• Horizontal

• Parallel

A rough, light, loose drawing .

• Shading

• Line Quality

• Cropping

• Sketch

A line drawing

• Blind Contour

• Line Quality

• Contour Drawing

• Horizontal

Art that appears to tell a story.

• Narrative

• Technique

• Imagination

• Texture

A design that repeat itself.

• Pattern

• Texture

• Pictogram

• Symmetry

The size of one thing in relation to another.

• Composition

• Positive Space

• Proportional/Scale

• Negative Space

How you arrange the parts of your artwork.

• Imagination

• Composition

• Foreground

• Technique

When objects in the distance seem small, while objects in front are life-size.

• Composition

• Negative space

• Perspective

• Foreground

An object that is both made well, and looks aesthetically pleasing

• Foreground

• Form and function

• Two-dimensional

• Three-dimentional

The way in which art is created.

• Composition

• Technique

• Texture

• Silhouette