<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT"%> Studio In A School - Linking Visual Arts & Literacy

Workshop: Mixed-Media Collage Book

VOCABULARY:

  Line

a mark between two points

Linear relying on line for its principal effects
Line quality thick, thin, fast, slow, calm, nervous, rough, smooth, dar, light, loud, quiet, etc.
Shape closed figure, a line that closes itself, has an inside and an outside
Pattern repeated shapes, marks, or lines
Design balance, weight, relationships between big and small shapes
Tone and value light and dark and shades in between
Contrast the darkest and lightest next to each other
Collage cut and torn paper glued together to make a 2 dimensional work
Weave as in paper weaving, an alternating overlap technique used with thread, yarn and paper to rpoduce a fabric or paper object.
Legend a tale, story, oral history passed down from generation to generation
Symbol a sign, a representation, an image that means something special