| A | B |
| Isolated line | Use of line as a primary means to achieve an end |
| Implied line | Lines that create direction. |
| Cognetive | used by commercial artists |
| Affective | used by emotional artists |
| Biomorphic | shape that looks like an organ in the body |
| Organic | God made shape |
| Geometric | manmade shape |
| Triad | Three colors that make an equalateral triangle on a color wheel |
| Related Colors | 5 colors in a row |
| Analogous | 3 colors in a row with one color in common |
| Split compliment | One color over from the opposite |
| Monocromatic | One color and black and white |
| Unity | THe oneness or wholeness |
| Line | path traced by moving a dot |
| Intensity | Has to do with color purity - not mised with anything |
| value | shades of color from light to dark |
| fake texture | simulated texture |
| actual texture | stacking or build up of paint |
| rhythm | the controlled movement to be found in all good designs |
| balance | when the eye is attracted equally to the various imaginary axes of a composition |
| proportion | the size relationships within a composition |
| formal symentry | down the middle balance |
| informal symentry | exciting odd numbers of things for balance |
| symbolic color | color that means an object ex: fire engine red |
| line | the most flexiable element |
| mass | 3 -d word for shape |
| color | the most powerful of all elements |
| light theory | scientists use wave length theory to explain color |
| pigment theory | making your own colors |
| architecture | science of enclosing space for human needs |
| sculpture | viewing art in three demintion |
| picture plane | all the space and picture |
| warm colors | red, orange, yellow |
| cool colors | blue, green, violet |
| pictorial space | the flat surface of the paper |
| actual space | two dimensional as in drawings, paintings, or prints |
| texture | the degree of roughness or smoothness of a surface |
| shape | the general outline of something |
| color | Conveying information in purely descriptive terms. |
| Complementary colors | colors opposite each other on the color wheel |
| Chiraroscuro | The technique used in drawing and painting to create the effects of light and shadow in the natural world |
| tint | color mixed with white |
| shade | color mixed with black |
| Intermediate colors | red-orange,yellow-orange,yellow-green,blue-green, blue-violet,red-violet |
| Secondary colors | green, orange, & violet |
| primary colors | blue, red, yellow |
| principales | when you take one element and put it with another element |
| design form | The underling structure or composition in a work of art |