WPS Art Curriculum

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ELEMENTS OF DESIGN

Line: a mark on a surface from one point to another that describes a shape or outline. A line can be described as thick, thin, straight, curved, jagged, broken, implied, contour, expressive, constructive, vertical, horizontal or diagonal Shape: a two-dimensional line that has no form or thickness and intersects itself to enclose a space. The two main groups of shapes are geometric and organic. Color: When light is broken by a prism, the spectrum of colors is visible. Primary Colors: Red, Blue, Yellow  Can mix to make all other colors Secondary Colors: Orange, Green, Violet (or Purple)  Made from mixing two primary colors together Intermediate (or Tertiary) Colors: Red-orange, Red-violet, Blue-green, Blue-violet, Yellow-green, Yelloworange  Made from mixing a primary color with an adjacent secondary color Neutral colors: Brown, gray, black, white Complementary colors: Colors that are opposite one another on the color wheel and are completely opposite in composition  Yellow and Violet, Red and Green and Blue and Orange are the three sets Warm Colors: Red, Red-orange, Orange, Yellow-orange, Yellow Cool colors: Violet, Blue-violet, Blue, Blue-green, Green Analogous colors: a family of colors that all share one component in common, four consecutive colors on the color wheel. Example: Blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green (all have blue in their composition) Triadic colors: three colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. Example: red, blue, yellow Value: the light and dark of a color, variation in tints and shades  A tint is the light value of a color, a shade is a dark value of a color. A gradient shows the steps between the tints and shades of a color. Texture: refers to the surface quality and is either visual (you can see it) or tactile (you can feel it), the degree of roughness or smoothness of a surface. Form: a three dimensional object that has volume and thickness. In a two-dimensional work of art, form can be implied through the use of values to make an object appear three-dimensional. Space: Can be positive and is the space taken up by the objects or negative and is the space between the objects

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