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Weaving • An artwork made of thread, yarn, or other fibers laced or woven together. BACK TO THE BOARD!
Weaving
• An artwork made of thread, yarn, or other fibers laced or woven together.
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Tint
• A color that is created when you mix white with a color.
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Linear Symmetry
• If you divided an object in half and the left side looked the same or similar to the right side, it would be said to have ____________________.
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Primary Colors
• A group of colors that can be mixed together in different ways to create all other colors (red, yellow, blue).
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Quilt
• A piece of textile art created by sewing together patches of fabric.
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Diagonal Line
• A slanted edge or line.
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Broken Line
• This line looks like it fell down and broke.
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Clay
• A soft, moist material used to create artworks such as sculptures and pottery.
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Analogous Colors
• Color scheme of colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel.
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Abstract Art
• It doesn’t look really realistic and the artist probably cared more about colors and shapes.
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Geometric Shape
• A regular shape (such as a square, triangle, circle, etc).
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Landscape
• A drawing or painting showing an outdoor scene.
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Middle-ground
• The middle layer in a piece of artwork (between the foreground and the background).
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Shade
• A color made by adding black to another color.
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Shadow
• Areas of darkness on or around an object caused by a lack of direct light in certain areas (can be used to make something look more 3-D).
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Warm Colors
• Colors that appear to advance in space (hint: they are fiery and hot).
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Atmospheric Perspective
• A technique used to create the illusion of depth in your artwork by coloring the background details lighter and with less detail and the foreground darker and with more detail.
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Animation
• The art of showing many pictures quickly to make them look like they are moving.
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Collage
• The technique of overlapping and gluing multiple pieces of paper together to create a piece of art.
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Pattern
• A _________ is created when a color, shape, line, or something else is repeated in a certain order.
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Radial Symmetry
• A type of symmetry which radiates around a central point.
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Seascape
• An artwork which shows a sea, ocean, or shore scene.
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Variety
• A principle of design which refers to having a lot of something from the same group with difference (for example, a handful of different coins would be an example of a _________ of coins).
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Symmetry
• Balance created by making both sides or an artwork the same, equal, or almost the same (hint: can be radial or linear).
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Secondary Colors
• The three colors that are created when you mix the colors red, yellow, and blue in certain ways.
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Highlight
• Areas of direct light on an object (can be used to make something look more 3-D).
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Form
• An object is said to have _______ if it is 3-D or looks like it is 3-D (this would be implied ___________).
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Realistic
• Showing something, such as a person or a scene in your artwork as it really looks.
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Score
• The process of making scratch-marks in clay to better enable the process of joining pieces of clay.
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Soft Sculpture
• A three-dimensional piece of artwork created with a soft material (such as fabric, canvas, etc).
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Logo
• A symbol used to represent a group (like a business or organization).
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Pinch-pot
• A pot/bowl created by pinching pieces of clay into the right shape.
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Still-life
• An artwork showing an arrangement of objects that cannot move on their own (such as fruit or flowers).
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Horizontal Line
• A line that moves across the paper from left to right.
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Vertical Line
• Moving up and down rather than side to side.
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Zig-zag Lines
• A line that sharply alternates between moving up and down.
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Textile Art
• Fabric arts.
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Tempera Paint
• A chalky, water-based paint (sometimes called poster paint).
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Portrait
• A picture of a person.
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Kiln
• The furnace in which clay is fired to harden it.
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Color Wheel
• A tool artists use to make choices about color.
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Architect
• A person whose job is to design buildings.
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Chalk Pastel
• A medium that can be used like chalk and blends colors very well.
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Illustrator
• An artist who creates images for things such as books or posters.
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Border
• Decorative detail going around the outside of your artwork.
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Movement
• The sense of motion created in a piece of artwork (wavy lines often show this).
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Mosaic
• An artwork made from small pieces of colored glass, stone, paper, or other materials.
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1-point perspective
• A way of drawing something in which all diagonal lines converge to a single point on the horizon line. This way of drawing helps create the illusion of depth.
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Texture (implied)
• The way that something appears to feel.
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Texture (real)
• The way that something really feels.
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Watercolor Paint
• A translucent water-based paint.
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Self-Portrait
• A picture of yourself created by yourself.
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Neutral Colors
• A color scheme made up of the colors white, black, gray, and brown.
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Symbol
• A letter, color, sign, or picture that expresses a larger meaning (it represents something).
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Tessellation
• Pattern created with a repeating shape that does not overlap and could continue on forever.
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2-point Perspective
• A way of drawing something in which receding lines meet at two vanishing points.
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Complementary Colors
• Colors that sit across from each other on the color wheel.
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Background
• The farthest layer back in your artwork (hint: it is often a sky).
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Freeform Shape
• A organic or irregular shape that is not geometric.
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Line
• A path of a point moving through space (hint: it can be horizontal, vertical, broken, wavy, etc).
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Repetition
• Something that occurs over and over and over again.
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Spiral Line
• A type of line created by starting at a middle point that gradually moves outward and gets larger in a circular motion.
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Value
• The lightness or darkness of a color.
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Wavy Line
• A line that alternates between moving up and down fluidly through space.
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Slab
• An even flat piece of clay.
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Oil Pastel
• A pastel that is oil-based and is great for blending colors.
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Foreground
• The front layer in a piece of artwork. This layer appears to be closest to the viewer.
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Blueprints
• The detailed drawing an architect creates for a building before he/she starts building it.
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Depth
• The apparent distance from front to back. (hint: Volume=height x width x ___________)
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Contour Line
• An outline.
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Cool Colors
• These colors appear to recede in space. (hint: They are laid back – and chill).
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Printmaking
• The process of creating prints of the same image.
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Coil
• A rope-like shaped piece of clay.
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Color Illusion of Depth Elements/Principles
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