Art Flashcards
Tone
lightness and darkness
Texture
creates a feeling of an object and makes it more interesting
Shading
a technique using dark or light colour to give impression of shape
Mark Making
experimenting with lines and shapes to make different textures and tones
Tonal Colour
when you blend harmonising/ related colours together going from light to dark
Analyse
when you examine a picture or work of an artist carefully and in detail, discussing the colours, shapes and meaning
Idolatry
the worship of a cult image or “idol” as though it were God. In Abrahamic religions idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were God.
Score and slip
the process of adding small cuts to the surface of clay before adding slip(clay glue)
Clay Blending
attaching two pieces of clay by smoothing them together(They must be scored and slipped first)
Slab
a flat sheet of rolled clay that can then be cut to shape and used to make a clay pot
Relief
a method of moulding, carving, or stamping in which a design stands out from the surface of a piece of art
Mediums
the different materials that an artist uses to make a piece of art, such as: pencil, coloured pencil, clay, watercolour paint, acrylic paint, collage
Complementary colours
those which are opposite to each other on the colour wheel. For example, red and green. You DO NOT mix these- They look good next to each other
Harmonising colours/ Related colours
colours next to each other on the colour wheel and look nice together, they work in harmony,. Examples of harmonising colours are orange and red. You DO mix these together
Luminous
very bright in colour
