Visual arts

Question 1

what is elements of design?

Answer 1

are the parts or things that the artists, designer, engineers use to do or to create his or her artwork.

Question 2

list the 7 elements of designs?

Answer 2

lines, color, pattern, form, shapes, texture, space

Question 3

What is the principle of direction that can be used to place?

Answer 3

it can be used to place the elements of shape, lines color in any direction in a design.

Question 4

What are 7 types of principles of designs ?

Answer 4

unity, rhythm, balance, movement, contrast, repetition, and direction

Question 5

list 13 types of lines?

Answer 5

straight, wavy, dotted, zig-zag, broken, curvy,curved, spiral, diagnal, crossed hatched, and lightening roots and lines forming clouds and castles lines.

Question 6

what are shapes?

Answer 6

a shape is formed by enclosed lines eg. triangles

Question 7

list the three categories of shapes

Answer 7

geometric shapes, organic shapes, free-form shapes and random shapes

Question 8

list 7 geometric shapes

Answer 8

oval, circles, cones,triangles,rectangle,cylinder, squares,

Question 9

what are organic shapes?

Answer 9

they are also called natural shapes. they are found in natural eg. shape of tree, animal and humans

Question 10

what is free-form shapes/random?

Answer 10

are shape that are done in an irregular or random way

Question 11

what is value in art?

Answer 11

is how light and dark something is on a scale of white to black with white being the highest value and black being the lowest value.

or

value is the degree of lightness or darkness of an object.

Question 12

what are two different value of the same hue?

Answer 12

these are called tints and shades

Question 13

what is shading?

Answer 13

shading is the process of adding value to create the illusion of form, shape and important degree of light and dark in a picture or drawing.

Question 14

what is scribbing?

Answer 14

lines are used to create value the closer the lines are the darker the value comes

Question 15

what is stippling ?

Answer 15

the use of dots to create value

Question 16

what is hatching?

Answer 16

this involves the use of parallel lines or stokes administred side by side.

Question 17

whats is cross hatching?

Answer 17

lines that cross over each other

Question 18

what is blending?

Answer 18

It is the technique of gently intermingling two or more colors or values to create a gradual transition or to soften lines.

Question 19

who invented the color wheel?

Answer 19

Sir Isaac Newton, a scientist, invented the colour wheel or Colour prism in the year 1666.

Question 20

what is the color wheel?

Answer 20

The Colour Wheel is a wheel of colours, used by artists, designers,scientists and craft personnel as a tool in organizing and understanding colours.

Question 21

how much parts does the color wheel have?

Answer 21

12 parts

Question 22

what are primary colors?

Answer 22

Primary colours are pure and are in their natural state. They cannot be achieved by mixing other colours. All other colours are formed from the Primary colours.
They are red, yellow and blue.

Question 23

what are secondary colors?

Answer 23

Secondary Colours are formed by mixing two Primary colours together at a time. These two Primary colours are mixed in equal amounts or proportions.

Question 24

what do we mix to get secondary colors?

Answer 24

• Red + yellow = orange
• Yellow+ blue = green
• Blue + red = purple

Question 25

what are tertiary colors?

Answer 25

These colours are achieved by mixing a Primary colour with a Secondary colour

Question 26

how many tertiary colors do we have and list six?

Answer 26

Yellow + Orange = Yellow-
orange.

Yellow + green = Yellow-
green.

Blue + green = Blue-green

Blue+ purple = Blue-purple

Red+ purple= Red- purple

Red+ orange = Red-
orange.

Question 27

what is another word/name for color?

Answer 27

hue

Question 28

key notes to label the color wheel?

Answer 28

Each Primary colour are three empty spaces from each other on the twelve part colour wheel.

A Secondary colour is one empty space away from each Primary colour on the twelve part colour wheel.

Each Tertiary colour is in- between one Primary colour and one Secondary colour on the twelve part colour wheel.