Art Vocabulary

To put in proper relation with something else.

• Proportion

• Composition

• Hue

• Background

A mark with length and direction, created by a point that moves across a surface.

• Shape

• Hue

• Form

• Line

2-Dimensional objects (circle, square, triangle)

• Line

• Shape

• Form

• Hue

3-Dimensional objects ( cone, cube, cylinder, sphere)

• Shape

• Form

• Line

• Hue

a small, quick drawing used to get your ideas on paper

• Proportion

• Smudging

• Thumbnail Sketch

• Background

area an object occupies

• positive space

• negative space

• background

• smudging

area around an object.

• positive spacec

• negative space

• background

• composition

lightness or darkness of an color

• hue

• palette

• value

• symmetry

using an object to blend values. (not your finger)

• foreground

• smudging

• value

• hue

area within a composition that appears further away from the viewer. Objects appear smaller with less detail.

• foreground

• middleground

• background

• symmetry