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Workshop: Printmaking
VOCABULARY:
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Narrative |
A
work of visual or literary art that tells a story or recounts events that
actually happened.
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| Center
of interest |
The
part of a composition to which your eye is drawn because of the way the
artist has used formal elements such as a line, shape, color, contrast,
proportion, pattern, etc. to focus your attention on that piece. |
| Composition |
The
placement and arrangement of shapes and colors within a painting, drawing,
or collage. |
| Relationships |
Like
people, colors, shapes, and sizes relate to each other and we can study
those relationships within a work of art to better understand how an artist
achieves a given effect. |
| Proportion |
In
any composition, the relationship (in size) of parts to each other, or parts
in relationship to the whole. |
| Contrast |
The
use of opposites -- such as large and small shapes, bright and dull colors,
sharp and wavy lines -- often creating a dramatic effect. |
| Point
of view |
The
position from which one looks at an object (as in looking up from below
or looking down from above). |
| Diagonal,
curved, vertical, straight |
Words
to describe the direction and path of lines. |
| Brayer |
A
hand roller face with rubber. Used to transfer ink onto a printing plate. |
| Printing
plate |
A
flat surface that is either built up or carved into, so that, when inked
and applied to a receiving surface, a design will be left on the surface. |
| Geometric
shapes |
Regular
shapes such as circles, squares, ovals, triangles, rectangles, and polyhedra
(multi-sided shapes) |
| Amorphous
shapes |
Irregular
shapes |
| Promary
colors |
The
three colors from which theoretically all other colors can be obtained by
mixing. In paint pigments, these are red, yellow and blue. |
| Complementary
colors |
The
complement of a primary color is the color obtained by mixing the other
two remaining colors together. Two complementary colors will seem to vibrate
and will create a very high-key, excited effect. |
| Analogous
colors |
Colors
that are closely related, for example: yellowish-orange, reddsh-orange,
and red. When used together, such colors give a pleasant, rich, harmonious
look |
| Tint |
A
color with white added to it. |
| Shade |
A
color with black added to it. |