Art Final 1 Flashcards
What is Art?
A human expression
What is craftsmanship?
High quality due to careful attention to detail, passion, experience, and care
What is proportion
Relationship of an element’s size compared to another element
What is contrast?
Having conflicting elements arranged together (in value, color, size)
What is a focal point? How to make it stronger?
The area of attention. People’s eyes will be naturally drawn here
You can use contrast, isolation, placement (rule of 3rds), convergence (lines)
The rule of thirds
You must place your focal point on one of the points of the 3x3 grid
The 7 elements of design
- Line
- Shape
- Form
- Color
- Texture
- Value
- Space
Line
1D pathway of a moving dot
Shape
A line that encloses an area (1D)
Form
3D shape
Color
Light wavelengths that reflect into the eye
Texture
How an object feels/looks like it feels, created by markmaking
Value
Lightness to darkness
Space
The area between/around objects
Portrait
People pictures from the shoulder up
Landscape
Far-away art of a place
Still life
Close up detailed object
Abstract
Simplifying
Contour drawing
Drawing using a single line
Line value
Differing line weights, patterns, density
Full value shading
Creating lights/darks using different pressure of the pencil
Highlight
Pure white, brightest part of the drawing, use eraser/leave empty
Shadow
Pure black, darkest part of the drawing, apply high pressure with pencil
Smudging
Using finger/blender to make gradient (for shading)
Mark making
The different dots, lines, marks, patterns, and textures in an artwork
Primary colors
Red, blue, yellow
Secondary colors
Orange, violet, green
Intermediate/tertiary colors
Mixed colors:
Red-orange
Red-violet
Blue-violet
Blue-green
Yellow-green
Yellow-orange
Hues
Add saturation/pigment
Tints
Add white
Tones
Add grey
Shade
Add black
Neutrals
Natural colors, including black,
white, grey, brown, cream, beige
Created by mixing complimentary colors
Complementary colors
Colors from opposite sides of the color wheel
Red + green, orange + blue, yellow + purple
Analogous colors
Colors next to each other on the color wheel
Yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue
Monochromatic
Shades and tints of 1 color/hue
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
What is clay made out of?
Glass, mineral, metal
Rules of clay
- Wedge clay
- Use armature to hold shape
- Max thickness is 3/4 inch
- Score & slip to join clay
- Leave an air escape for hollow areas
- Seal bag tightly so clay doesn’t dry out
- Slowly dry clay to prevent cracking
- Clay shrinks 10-15% during drying and firing
- Clay has to be 100% dry and warm before firing
- No throwing/tossing/eating clay
- Can clean clay out of clothes w/ soap+water, clay must go in trash
Score and slip
Score = make scratches
Slip = add water
Tools used for clay
Loop tool, needle tool, wood modelling
