Art Vocabulary

This painting is ___________________

• abstract

• a portrait

A rough, light, loose drawing .

• Shading

• Line Quality

• Cropping

• Sketch

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

The way in which something feels.

• Technique

• Composition

• Texture

• Pattern

A three dimensional work of art.

• Assemblage

• Sculpture

• Landscape

• Collage

Art that appears to tell a story.

• Narrative

• Technique

• Imagination

• Texture

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

The technique used to create the illusion of depth in a painting.

• Aerial Perspective

• Chiaroscuro

• Sfumato

• Impasto