Art Terms

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Across
  1. 1. Representations on a flat surface usually made with pen, pencil, crayon, chalk or paint with an emphasis on line.
  2. 4. Oil based crayons.
  3. 5. The arrangement of the parts of a work of art.
  4. 8. Soft limestone, sometimes used as a drawing material or mixed to make pastels and other crayons.
  5. 10. Colors next to each other on the color wheel.
  6. 12. Tints and shades of single hue or color.
  7. 13. A sculpture representing the neck and head only of a person.
  8. 17. The "glue" the holds pigment together and makes it stick to a surface.
  9. 18. The surface used to dispense and mix paint on.
  10. 20. Art works made with newspaper strips that have been moistened with wallpaper paste or laundry starch.
  11. 21. Coarse cloth or heavy fabric that must be stretched and primed to use for painting, particularly for oil paintings.
  12. 23. The art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush.
  13. 27. An arrangement of shapes adhered to a background.
  14. 28. A hue mixed with white to create lighter values.
  15. 29. Inanimate object(s) represented in a drawing, painting or collage.
  16. 30. The quality of a surface. One of the seven elements of art.
  17. 33. Dried, crushed clay mixed with water to a creamy consistency. Used as a binder in joining two pieces of clay together.
  18. 34. Originally the study of beautiful things. But currently aesthetics refers to the study or understanding of anything that is visually pleasing or "works" within the boundaries of the principles of art.
  19. 36. An image created with the use of small dots or points.
  20. 39. The scientific word for color.
  21. 40. The line that distinguishes the sky from the earth, or the ground from the wall. The eye-level of the artists view. Also, where the vanishing point lies in a perspective drawing.
  22. 42. A principle in art where important elements and ideas are emphasized via composition.
  23. 44. The range of lightness or darkness in a color. A gray scale shows the range of values in photography.
  24. 46. A drawing material made from charred wood.
  25. 48. Orange, green and purple.
  26. 49. An element of art focused on all three dimensions (height, width and depth).
  27. 50. Pigment with a water soluble binder. Available in semi-moist cakes or tubes.
Down
  1. 2. A surface preparation or primer made of chalk or gypsum for tempura or oil paintings that is painted onto the picture surface.
  2. 3. A large "oven" used for firing clay work.
  3. 6. An image that accompanies written text and aids in interpreting it.
  4. 7. The process or material used in a work of art.
  5. 9. A painting either on a wall or on a surface to be attached to a wall.
  6. 10. Plastic, water soluble pigment used for painting.
  7. 11. The organization of colors on a wheel. Used to help understand color schemes.
  8. 14. The element of art that describes a two-dimensional area (height and width).
  9. 15. Painting or sculpture representing the likeness of a person.
  10. 16. An opaque, water soluble paint available in liquid or powdered form.
  11. 17. The art principle which refers to the arrangement of elements in an art work. Balance can be either formal symmetrical, informal asymmetrical or radial.
  12. 19. Design, motif or symbol repeated over and over.
  13. 22. Refers to the darker values of a color.
  14. 24. An element of art used in drawing, painting and sculpture. A line is the path of a moving point.
  15. 25. Art created from a realistic situation but represented unrealistically. Abstract art images are "abstracted" from real life images
  16. 26. Images created using small tesserae arranged and glued into a design or composition. Mosaics date back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, mostly used to decorate walls and floors.
  17. 31. The amount of light or shade in a color. The value range in a painting.
  18. 32. An element of art that refers to "hue".
  19. 35. Colors opposite each other on the color wheel. When to complimentary colors are mixed together you will get a neutral tone
  20. 37. Preliminary or rough draft, typically made with pencil, crayon, pen, brush or pastel.
  21. 38. paint made by mixing ground pigment with oil (usually linseed oil) as a binder.
  22. 41. Coloring material, which, when mixed with a binder forms a paint.
  23. 43. The basic colors that can be used to mix other colors. The primary colors are red, yellow and blue.
  24. 45. A natural, moist earth substance used in making bricks, tile, pottery and ceramic sculpture.
  25. 47. Clay objects that have been fired twice, the second time with a glaze.