6th Grade Vocabulary
Deadline:
The time limit: the time by which something must be done or completed
Medium:
The art material that is used in a work of art such as clay, paint or pencil. Describing more then
one art medium is referred to as media.
Line:
An element of art that is used to define shape, contours, and outlines, also to suggest mass and
volume. It may be a continuous mark made on a surface with a pointed tool or implied by the
edges of shapes and forms.
Characteristic of Line are:
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Width- thick, thin, tapering, uneven
Length - long, short, continuous, broken
Direction- horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curving, perpendicular, oblique, parallel, radial,
zigzag
 Focus- sharp, blurry, fuzzy, choppy
 Feeling- sharp, jagged, graceful, smooth
Color:
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Warm colors: colors that are often associated with fire and the sun and remind people of warm
places, things, and feelings. Warm colors range from the reds through oranges and yellows.
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Cool colors: colors often connected with cool places things or feelings. The family of cool colors
range from the greens through the blues and violets.
Hue: another word for color
Color Scheme: A plan for selecting or organizing colors. Common color schemes include: warm
and cool colors, neutral, monochromatic colors, analogues, complementary colors, and triad.
Primary Colors: Red, blue, yellow
Secondary colors: green, purple, and orange: Blue + Yellow = Green
Yellow + Red = Orange
Blue + red= Purple
Warm: reds, yellows, and oranges
Cool: blues, purples, and greens
Analogues Color: colors that are closely related because they have one hue in common.
Example: Blue; blue-violet, violet. They all appear next to each other on the color wheel.
Intermediate colors: a color made by mixing a secondary color with a primary color.
Monochromatic: made of only a single color and its tints and shades.
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Neutral color: a color not associated with a hue, such as black, white, gray, or brown.
Triad: three colors spaced equally apart on the color wheel, such as orange, green, and violet.
Contrasting colors: colors that are very different from each other in hue, lightness or
brightness.
Shapes
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A flat figure created when actual or implied lines meet to surround a space. A change in color
or shading can define a shape. Shapes can be divided into several types: Geometric and
organic.
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Geometric: Shapes that is regular in outline. Geometric shapes include circles, squares,
rectangles, and triangles. Geometric forms include cones, cubes, cylinders, slabs, pyramids
and spheres.
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Organic Shapes: shapes that irregular in outline, such as things in nature. (flower, clouds,
animals, blob, splat, or people)
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Positive space/shape: the objects in a work of art, not the background or the space around
them.
Negative space/shape: the empty space surrounding shapes or solid forms in a work of art.
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