Art Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. a hue or mixture of pure colors to which only black is added.
  2. 7. is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.
  3. 11. the act of organizing the elements of an artwork into a harmoniously unified whole.
  4. 12. Scale a range of gray shades from white to black, as used in a monochrome display or print out.
  5. 14. Color muted shades that appear to lack color but often have underlying hues that change with different lighting. Examples of neutral colors include beige, taupe, gray, cream, brown, black, and white.
  6. 15. colors Green, Orange, Purple. A color resulting from the mixing of two primary colors.
  7. 17. The lightness or darkness of tones or colors. An element of art by which positive and negative areas are defined or a sense of depth achieved in a work of art .
Down
  1. 1. is one of the main properties of a color, as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow"
  2. 3. an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing (or painting or scribing) closely spaced parallel lines.
  3. 4. the technique of painting colors or values so that there is a gentle and gradual transition from one to the other.
  4. 5. colors red, blue and yellow. They cannot be mixed from other colors. They are the source of all other colors.
  5. 6. one created using only one color or hue. It can use different shades of one color but by definition should contain only one base color.
  6. 8. colors colors are pairs of colors which, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out by producing a gray scale color like white or black. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those two colors.
  7. 9. any hue or mixture of pure colors to which white is added.
  8. 10. colors are often said to be hues from red through yellow, browns and tans included
  9. 11. wheel a diagram used in the visual arts to represent the colors of the visible spectrum and their relationships to one another.
  10. 13. Color a color produced by an equal mixture of a primary color with a secondary color adjacent to it on the color wheel.
  11. 15. the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots.
  12. 16. Colors are often said to be the hues from blue green through blue violet, most grays included.