Art 1 & 2 : 1st and 2nd week vocabulary.

Here's the vocabulary that we have had in the first and part of the second week of school for Art 1 and Art 2 if you missed it/entered the class late.

Observational Drawing: •Drawing created when looking at objects, people or places. This type of drawing is meant to achieve a representational accuracy to the subject.

 Figure/ground relationship:  a visual relationship between foreground (objects etc.) and background (negative space, air, table, environment).

COMPOSITION: the way the principles of design are used to organize the elements of art; how a page is set up or arranged. 

Shading – a drawing technique that uses light and dark values (shades) to give the illusion of form (3-D).

Tortillion (blender) - a tool used by artists to smudge and blend drawing materials.

Art 1 also had: 

Collage: an artwork created by pasting cut or torn materials, such as paper, photographs, and fabric to a flat surface.