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30 Cards in this Set
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What is scribbling?
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Random, multidirectional lines that create tones, textures, densities, or illusions of mass
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What is a calligraphic line?
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"beautiful line" the beauty of the line takes presidence over legibility in the visual arts
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Way is a contour line an important exercise?
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It trains your drawing hand and your hand/eye coordination at the same time.
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the expressiveness of drawing is determined by what three things?
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1. choice of drawing instrument
2. surface materials 3. technique combined with skill and manlipulation |
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Texture
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surface character that is experienced through touch
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Actual Texture
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How something actually feels when you touch it
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Simulated texure
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Drawn texture that is an illusion of actual texture
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Uniform texture
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texture that appear to be very similar together to create a tight harmony
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Invented texture
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a fictional or improvised texture created to heighten the imagined description
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Frottage
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"rubbing" a technique where you place a piece of paper over a textured area and rub the paper with a charcoal piece making a positive impression
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rendering
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a drawing displaying a high degree of detailed representation
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Tromp L'oeil
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"decieve the eye" rendering in it's most meticulous form. It makes the audience think that they are looking at the actual object
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Textural character is determined by what four factors?
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1. the nature of the surface being shown
2. what materials are used 3. the way the materials are used 4. the course inventiveness on the artists part |
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What is composition?
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The skelental structure of the a picture
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Composition begins with what?
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It begins with the first four lines outlineing the border
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What is picture plane?
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the area inside the border of the paper that the artist draws on
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What is a closed composition?
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The composition is enclosed in the border
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What is a open compositiion
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the subject extends outside the border of the paper
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What is symmetrical Balance
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the divideing of a picture so that the two halves are identical
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what is a-symmetrical Balance
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when there is a clear sense if uneven weight to the picture
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What is the directional quality of a vertical line?
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a feeling of alertness, dignity, stability, strength
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what is the directional quality of a horizontal line?
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calm, restful, suggestive of peace, and infinity
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what is the directiional quality of a diagonal line?
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Dynamic, suggestive of action, complements vertical and horizontal lines
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what is the directional quality of a curved line?
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grace, elegance, and flowing movements
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What is shape?
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the flat, 2-D definition of a form
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Explain two ways that an artist can make the illusion of depth
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1. overlapping
2. making objects get smaller was they go farther back in the picture |
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what's the difference between open and closed forms?
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open forms flow into the surrounding areas without noticable separations. closed forms are confined in the contour of the shape
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Burnishing
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repeated layering of color that caused a surface to be shiny
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Wax Bloom
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An advanced stage of burnishing that produces a foggy quality that is bad
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How do you use workable fixative to fix wax bloom?
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the spray can add texture so that you can go over it again with the colored pencil
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