Exam Time

Already it is the end of the school year and time for exams. Here is a copy of the review that we did in class last week. Use the underlined links to get more information. Good Luck!

Visual Arts - Review for the Final Exam

Colour Theory

· primary colours

· hue

· secondary colours

· tertiary colours

· complementary colours

· analogous colours

· monochromatic

· values – tints and shades

· colour schemes

Drawing Techniques

· crosshatching

· hatching

· negative space

· contour line

Elements of Art

· line

· colour

· shape

· space

· value

· texture

· form

Printmaking

What is printmaking? = making artwork by printing, making multiple copies of the same piece

· printing plate: surface that is worked on so that copies can be printed from it (eg. lino block)

· brayer: a roller that picks up and spreads the ink on the printing plate

· burnish: to rub

· edition: the identical prints of one piece of artwork

The Group of Seven

· The Group of Seven was a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s,

Woodland Style of Painting

· A style of painting created first by Norval Morrisseau

· It shows legends and stories of (anishnabe) First Nations people

· bright colours

· lines of communication

· x-ray vision

· divided circles

· lines of power

Balance (composition)

· symmetrical

· asymmetrical

· radial

Architecture

what is it?

Foreshortened Squares and Cubes

practice drawing them – once again