Art Vocabulary

Observational Drawing

• tracing another picture

• Drawing what you see

• drawing what comes into your head

Contour Line

• Defines a form or an edge/silhouette

• the line at the edge of the paper

• the first line you draw when starting a picture

Positive Space

• the background

• an energy in the classroom

• Subject of picture/art

Negative Space

• the white paper of the drawing

• Area surrounding subject of picture/art

• a sad feeling when drawing something difficult

Value

• the amount of something

• The darkness or lightness of a color in an area of a painting

• How good your work is

Texture

• The quality given to a work of art

• the feeling of a shoe

• rough sand in your hands