Accents - emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition.
Adjectives - Words that describe you.
Background - The farthest element away from you in a photo or work of art is the background.
Balance - The art principle which refers to the arrangement of elements in an art work. Balance can be either formal symmetrical, informal asymmetrical or radial.
Brayer - A brayer is a hand-held tool used to spread ink on a surface.
Cityscape - A scene including city buildings, bridges, streets or traffic lights.
Cool colors — colors such as blue, green, and purple (violet); evoke a cool feeling because they remind us of things like water or grass.
Collaborative - an effort in which people work together (that is, one in which they collaborate).
Collage - An arrangement of shapes adhered to a background.
Color - An element of art that refers to "hue".
Color wheel - The organization of colors on a wheel. Used to help understand color schemes.
Complementary colors - Colors opposite each other on the color wheel. When two complementary colors are mixed together you will get a neutral tone.
Composition - It is the way in which different elements of an artwork are combined or arranged.
Concentric - It describes something, like circles, that have a common center.
Continuous contour line - It is a contour drawing done without picking your pencil off of the paper. It is essentially done with one long line.
Contrast - It refers to the arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs. small shapes, etc.)
Corners - where 2 sides of a shape meet.
Crayon resist - A drawing made with crayons, where a light watercolor wash is applied over the crayons. The crayons resist the ink.
Crop - remove or adjust the outside edges of an image (typically a photo) to improve framing or composition.
Curved - bending gradually.
Echo lines - the art of repeating the outline of an object with soft, flowing lines that “echo” the original shape.
Emphasis - A principle in art where important elements and ideas are emphasized via composition.
Eye-level - In reference to perspective, eye-level is the artists' view of where the perceived line or perspective came from.
Font - A font is a collection of characters with a similar design.
Foreground - The element of the photo or work of art closest to you makes up the foreground.
Form - An element of art focused on all three dimensions (height, width and depth).
Geometric shapes - shapes such as circles, triangles or squares have perfect, uniform measurements and don't often appear in nature.
Intersecting lines - Lines that crisscross one another.
Illustration - a picture or diagram that helps make something clear or attractive.
Line - An element of art used in drawing, painting and sculpture. A line is the path of a moving point.
Line of Symmetry - A line of symmetry is the line that divides a shape or an object into two equal and symmetrical parts.
Loom - an apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread.
Medium - The material used in a work of art.
Middle ground - The area in between foreground and background in a photo or work of art.
Monochromatic - An artwork containing or using only one color.
Motif - An element of an image. A motif may be repeated in a pattern or design, often many times.
Movement - An art principle that describes the path a viewer's eye takes through a work of art. It's created by using elements of art, such as line, color, and shape, to direct the viewer's eye around the image. Movement can create a sense of action, excitement, and drama in a work of art.
Mural - A painting either on a wall or on a surface to be attached to a wall.
Oil pastel - Oil based crayons.
Organic or Natural shapes - shapes associated with things from the natural world, like plants and animals.
Overlapping – the placement of objects over one another.
Parallel lines - lines that are equal distance from each other and never meet.
Pattern - Design, motif or symbol repeated over and over.
Positive and negative space - In most artwork, the subject or focus of a picture is called the positive space, while the areas surrounding the main subject are known as the negative space.
Primary colors - The basic colors that can be used to mix other colors. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue.
Printmaking - Printmaking is making art by printing pictures, normally on paper. The advantage of printmaking is that lots of the same pictures can be printed. This is called a print.
Radial Symmetry - A type of formal balance in which objects radiate around a central point and has more than one line of symmetry.
Relief sculpture - any work which projects from a background.
Repetition - recurrence of a particular line, pattern, shape, or other visual elements.
Sculpture - 3-dimensional art that you can see from different sides.
Secondary colors: Colors made by mixing 2 primary colors - Orange, green and purple.
Self-portrait - a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist.
Shade - Refers to the darker values of a color.
Shape - The element of art that describes a two-dimensional area (height and width).
Sketch - Preliminary or rough draft, typically made with pencil, crayon, pen, brush or pastel.
Still life - Inanimate object(s) represented in a drawing, painting or collage.
Symmetrical balance - means that the work of art is the same on one side as the other.
Tempera paint - An opaque, water soluble paint available in liquid or powdered form.
Text - Words used in art.
Texture - The way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel if it were touched. One of the seven elements of art.
Tint - A hue mixed with white to create lighter values.
Unity - A principle of design that unifies all other principles within a piece of work, allowing each individual element to coexist with one another to form an aesthetically pleasing design.
Value - The range of lightness or darkness in a color. A gray scale shows the range of values in photography.
Variety - Variety in art means using different sizes, shapes and colors in your artwork to create visual diversity. Artists achieve visual variety with several elements treated in different ways.
Warm colors - colors such as red, yellow, and orange; evoke warmth because they remind us of things like the sun or fire.
Warp - They are the vertical threads that are fixed to the bottom and top of a loom.
Weft - Weft is a yarn that runs back and forth horizontally.
Weaving - Interlacing of two sets of threads at right angles to each other to form cloth.