CA Term 1 Flashcards
What are the 3 primary colors?
Red, Blue and Yellow
What are the 3 secondary colors?
Purple, Orange and Green
What are Tertiary Colors?
A primary color and secondary color mixed together. Colors right next to each other on the color wheel.
What are warm colors?
Red, Orange and Yellow
What are cool colors?
Green, Blue and Purple
What is a tint?
When we add white to colors to gradually lighten them.
What is a shade?
When we add black to colors to gradually darken them.
What are complimentary colours? Name them.
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel. Eg. Blue and Orange, Yellow and Purple, Red and Green.
What are monochromatic colors?
Made up of one color and its shades and tints.
What is a neutral color?
Colors that don’t appear on the color wheel and are often defined as hues that appear to have no color.
What colors are mixed to get secondary colors?
Purple = Red + Blue
Green = Yellow + Blue
Orange= Yellow + Red
What happens when we mix all the colors together?
You create something that absorbs light, and to the human eye, the lack of light is seen as Black.
What is a hue?
A hue is a color or shade of color.
What is a dusty color?
When we add brown to a colour. Eg. Blue + Brown = Grey Blue
What are the 7 elements of art?
Line
Shape
Color
Form
Texture
Perspective
Tonal Value
What are the 4 physical properties of line with examples?
Measurement - Long, short, thick and thin.
Direction - Horizontal, diagonal, curved.
Location - Edge, surface, outline, linking.
Character - Mechanical, controlled, soft, hard.
What is shape?
A two-dimensional area (Flat) with a recognizable boundary.