Shape and Value Quiz

The full range of light to dark. It can be noncolor (white to black) or color (lighter values of any color to darker values of any color.

• Value

• Line

• Shape

• Contrast

Placing light against or beside dark to create an extreme affect.

• Form

• Gradation

• Contrast

• Negative shape

Changing slowly from light to dark with no sudden stops or division lines.

• Value

• Positive Shape

• Shape

• Gradation

Enclosed area with two dimensions (2D). The two types are: Organic- found in nature, Geometric- manmade.

• Form

• Shape

• Positive shape

• Negative Shape

The area occupied by an object or the object being painted or drawn. In a design, it is the area that is joined from the top to the bottom without being broken up.

• Positive Shape

• Negative Shape

• Contrast

• Form

The background area that surrounds the positive shape.

• Contrast

• Value

• Ground

• Negative shape

Enclosed area that has three dimensions (3D). It also has two characteristics, mass and volume. This term describes sculptures.

• Shape

• Figure

• Ground

• Form

is always the object of a drawing/painting (positive shape/space).

• Form

• Positive shape

• Figure

• Shape

is always the background of a drawing or painting (negative shape/space).

• Ground

• Gradation

• Negative Space

• Contrast

Draw an organic shape.