Art Final 1 Flashcards

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What is Art?

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A human expression

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What is craftsmanship?

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High quality due to careful attention to detail, passion, experience, and care

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What is proportion

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Relationship of an element’s size compared to another element

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What is contrast?

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Having conflicting elements arranged together (in value, color, size)

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5
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What is a focal point? How to make it stronger?

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The area of attention. People’s eyes will be naturally drawn here

You can use contrast, isolation, placement (rule of 3rds), convergence (lines)

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The rule of thirds

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You must place your focal point on one of the points of the 3x3 grid

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The 7 elements of design

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  1. Line
  2. Shape
  3. Form
  4. Color
  5. Texture
  6. Value
  7. Space
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Line

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1D pathway of a moving dot

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Shape

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A line that encloses an area (1D)

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Form

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3D shape

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Color

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Light wavelengths that reflect into the eye

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Texture

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How an object feels/looks like it feels, created by markmaking

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Value

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Lightness to darkness

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Space

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The area between/around objects

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15
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Portrait

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People pictures from the shoulder up

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16
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Landscape

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Far-away art of a place

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17
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Still life

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Close up detailed object

18
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Abstract

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Simplifying

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Contour drawing

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Drawing using a single line

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Line value

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Differing line weights, patterns, density

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Full value shading

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Creating lights/darks using different pressure of the pencil

22
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Highlight

A

Pure white, brightest part of the drawing, use eraser/leave empty

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Shadow

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Pure black, darkest part of the drawing, apply high pressure with pencil

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Smudging

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Using finger/blender to make gradient (for shading)

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Mark making
The different dots, lines, marks, patterns, and textures in an artwork
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Primary colors
Red, blue, yellow
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Secondary colors
Orange, violet, green
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Intermediate/tertiary colors
Mixed colors: Red-orange Red-violet Blue-violet Blue-green Yellow-green Yellow-orange
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Hues
Add saturation/pigment
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Tints
Add white
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Tones
Add grey
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Shade
Add black
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Neutrals
Natural colors, including black, white, grey, brown, cream, beige Created by mixing complimentary colors
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Complementary colors
Colors from opposite sides of the color wheel Red + green, orange + blue, yellow + purple
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Analogous colors
Colors next to each other on the color wheel Yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue
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Monochromatic
Shades and tints of 1 color/hue
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Triad
3 colors evenly apart (count 4 colors) on the color wheel/form a triangle Red, yellow, blue Orange, green purple Yellow-green, blue-violet, red-orange Orange-yellow, blue-green, red-violet
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What is clay made out of?
Glass, mineral, metal
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Rules of clay
1. Wedge clay 2. Use armature to hold shape 3. Max thickness is 3/4 inch 4. Score & slip to join clay 5. Leave an air escape for hollow areas 6. Seal bag tightly so clay doesn’t dry out 7. Slowly dry clay to prevent cracking 8. Clay shrinks 10-15% during drying and firing 9. Clay has to be 100% dry and warm before firing 10. No throwing/tossing/eating clay 11. Can clean clay out of clothes w/ soap+water, clay must go in trash
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Score and slip
Score = make scratches Slip = add water
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Tools used for clay
Loop tool, needle tool, wood modelling