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

Workshop: Poetic Images Through Painting and Collage

VOCABULARY:

  Primary colors

the three colors that cannot be created from mixing any others

Secondary colors the colors created when primary colors are mixed
Tempera a water-based paint (sometimes called "poster paint")
Tints a color mixed with white
Shade a color mixed with black
Composition the organization, arrangement, or layout of visual elements
Foreground objects and elements that appear closest to the viewer
Background areas that appear farthest away from the viewer
Details small parts of a composition, often giving specific information
Setting the immediate surroundings of an animal, thing, or person; the environment