2. Terminology
• Print - the outcome, the effect of ink transfer
• Roller - the tool to transfer ink from plate to
block
• Tray - the surface used to roll out ink
• Block - the surface used to develop imagery
• Press - the device for applying pressure to
the inked block, to transfer ink to paper
• Ink - the media used to make prints
• Monotype - a print that can only be produced
one time
4. Subtractive prints are monotypes created by removing
ink to make an image, while block printing adds details
or images created separately on an additional surface,
these can be replicated several times
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Primary color - (red, yellow, blue) colors that can not be made by
mixing other colors
Secondary color - (orange, green, purple) two primaries mixed,
red + yellow = orange
Tertiary color - a primary and secondary mixed, red + orange =
red orange
Tint - color plus white, red + white = pink
Tone - color plus grey
Shade - color plus black, orange + black = brown
Hue - the color itself
Chroma - the brightness or dullness of a color
Blind Contour Drawing - a drawing TECHNIQUE where you
focus entirely on the object, do not look at the page, and do not
lift your pencil from the paper
Contour - the silhouette or outline
12. • Value Study - a process of drawing where the artist
attempts to develop the tonal quality of the image,
highlights, middle values, and shadows
• Vanishing point - in man made setting, the point at which
all parallel receding lines appear to converge
• Horizon line - in natural settings, where the sky meets the
ground
• Still life - an arrangement of inanimate objects
• Media - the materials used to create art, I.e. paints, clay,
oil pastels, colored pencils, etc
Unity, Pattern, Balance,
Emphasis, Rhythm, Movement, Contrast
• Principles of Design -
13. Name an example of a complementary, split
complementary, analogous, and triadic color scheme…
14. • Analogous =
blue green,
green, yellow
green
• Triadic =
orange, green,
purple
• Complementary
= red, green
• Split
complementary
= green, red
orange, red
purple
15. Name the artist, title, year made, media used, one
fact about the artist, and one fact about the painting
16. Vincent van Gogh, Red Vineyard, 1888, Oil paints,
Only painting sold during van Gogh’s lifetime
Vincent van Gogh was a
complicated man, he had
wanted to be a pastor but
was not hired. He became a
painter and his brother
Theo helped support him
monetarily. He suffered
from mental illness and
eventually committed
suicide. We know a great
deal about him from his
letters to Theo, and today is
concerned one of the most
famous painters in history.
18. Charles Willson Peale,
“Portrait of Yarrow
Mamout”, 1819, Peale
was also scientist and
founded the Peale
Museum in Maryland, the
sitter was a former slave
who had earned his
freedom and achieved
financial stability and
longevity. Painting hangs
in our Philadelphia
Museum of Art.
20. Horace Pippin
John Brown Going to His
Hanging, 1942, Horace
Pippin’s grandmother painted
into lower right corner
Mr. Prejudice, 1943, about
segregation during WWII,
Pippin paints himself in his
WWI uniform, front left
21. Name the artist, title, year made, and
the Elements of Art you see here…