Art 7
Art
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- Accordion book
- Invented in Asia to accommodate scrolls that had become unmanageable due to their size
- Silhouette
- An outline of a shape, filled in with a solid color
- Creativity
- Solving a problem in a way that is original and unique
- Analogous
- Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel
- Shading
- Arranging of light and shadow to create the illusion of 3-D form
- Libraries
- Developed during the middle ages. Books were chained down to prevent theft
- Observation drawing
- Drawing from life
- Incising
- Using a scratching tool to remove the top color or to reveal the paper beneath the color
- Balance
- Arranging of visual elements either equally (symmetrical) or unequally (asymmetrican)
- Blending
- Combining colors to create different shades of a color
- Left brain thinking
- The verbal, mathematical, analytical side
- Texture
- How things feel, of how things look like they might feel
- Composition
- The arrangement of elements in a work or art
- Scumbling
- Using a series of circles of various size and color to create changes in value
- Contour Line
- Drawing all of the edges and ridges of an object
- Positive Space
- The image. The shapes or forms in a drawing
- Roman Alaphabet
- The alphabet that our current 26 letter alphabet originated from
- Negative Space
- Empty spaces surrounding positive space
- Burnishing
- Layers of colored pencil that are put on very thick so that it has a shiny, jewel like surface
- Complementary
- Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel
- Right brain thinking
- The creative, spatial side
- Paper
- Invented in china around 105 AD. Made from the inner bark of the mulberry tree
- Hieroglyphics
- Egyptain writing that uses pictures