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This sketchbook covers the core of what we will be doing in
art this semester. The sketchbook focuses your learning of
core concepts and vocabulary.
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• Date all assignments! sketches
• Label assignments (I.e. Sketch #2, Drawing Forms)
• Use pencil unless otherwise directed
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ASSIGNREWS?
In addition to the projects we do in class, you will have
sketchbook assignments to help you strengthen the creative
muscles in your right brain. These exercises are meant to
help you develop the skills, habits, and creativity necessary
for any artistic adventure.
• Complete during art free time! bell time, Guided
Study, or as homework.
• 10-20 minutes per week
• Fill the page
• Use resources; class files, Internet, magazines, etc.
• Color optional on weekly sketches
• Can be graded at I or more at a time before due
date
• Each sketch is worth 10 points a week.
• NO late work accepted for weekly sketches
Elements
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Form: 3D: height, width, and depth
Shape: 2-D: the area enclosed by an outline
realistic
geometric
abstract form
idealized form
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Value
Value: differences in a hue or neutral ranging from the
lightest to the darkest, for example, white to black.
naturalistic
nonrepresentational
amorphous form
biomorphic
Space
Space organizes elements in a composition.
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control of size,
Texture
Real textures: those which can be felt•
Implied textures: painted or drawn textures:
slick, smooth, rough, velvety, satiny, bumpy
Primary Colors
Red., Yellow.
Secondary Colors
Orange. Green,
Blue
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Red-orange, Red-violet,
Blue-vio let, Ye1Iow-reen,
Blue-green
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Monochromatic
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gray, black, white, brown
Tint
hue plus white
Blue—violet
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monoch-ornatic
variations of one hue
Tone
grayed color
Shade
hue plus black
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Elements of Art Test
Directions: After each number, write the term from the list that
best matches each description below.
color
elements of art
form
hue
• intensity
line
line quality
negative space
shape
space
texture
value
1.
The element of art that refers to how things
feel, or look as though they might feel, if touched.
2.
A continuous mark made on some surface
by a moving point.
3.
basic visual components that an artist
uses to create visual art.
4.
area clearly set off by one or more of
the other six visual elements of art.
5.
unique character of line.
6.
The element of art that is derived from
reflected light.
7.
distance or area between, around,
above, below, and within things.
8.
brightness or dullness of a hue.
The name of a color.
10.
lightness or darkness of a hue.
11.
element of art that refers to an object
with three dimensions.
12.
The empty spaces between the shapes or
forms in two- and three- dimensional art.
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Balancç
Balance is the equilibrium of various elements in thework
of art.
symmetrical or formal balance, equal balance on each. side
df an imaginary middle line.
asymetrical or informal balance. balance achieved through
unequal distribution on each side of an iuiaginary middle
line (Symrnetricd)
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Movement
Movement is a way of combining visual elements
to produce the illusion of action or to cause the
viewer’s eye to sweep over the work in a definite
manner.
Pattern
Pattern is created through a repetitious use of the same
element to create an ovraIl design.
Rhythm
Rythm is the repeated use of similar elements such as
colr line, or shape----the smooth transition from one
part to another.
Unity
Unity is the harmony of all the visual elements in a
composition.
Proportion is the pleasing relationship of all parts to
each other and to the whole of the design.
Varieiiicorisists of differences in scale, surface, line,
value, and shap that give interest to a composition.
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