1. Vocabulary - Watercolor Techniques
WRITE THESE DOWN IN THE BACK OF YOUR SKETCHBOOK
Wet on Wet - Adding pigment (Wet Color) to an already wet surface. Also known as a Wash.
Wet on Dry – Adding wet pigment to a dry surface. This is the best way to get a hard-edge shape.
Drybrush – Adding a drier pigment (Color) with a dry brush to a dry surface. (Good for producing texture)
Dry on Wet – Drybrushing over a wet or even dry wash. If the wash is still wet you will get soft-edges to your lines.

2. Vocabulary - Pattern
Pattern – A Principle of Design. The repeating of an object or symbols. An underlying structure that organizes surfaces or structures in a consistent regular manner. The skeleton that organizes a composition.
Types of Pattern
Geometric, Repetition, Alternating, Organic, Flow, Branching, Spiral/Fractal

3. Vocabulary – Line
Line – An Element of Art. Marks or connections that span a distance between two points, “mark-making.” A line has a width, direction, and length.
Contour Line – a line or set of lines enclosing or indicating the shape of an object (or groups of smaller objects) in a sketch or diagram.

4. Bold Line – Thick Lines/Strokes that hold attention.
Quiet Line – Lighter and thinner lines that hold less attention, but serve as careful and sometimes essential detailing.

5. Line Attributes- Long Thin Short Broken Rough Direction Smooth Angle
Draw examples next to the attribute.
Long
Short
Rough
Smooth
Thick
Thin
Broken
Direction
Angle
Curve

6. Pure Line – Line that varies little in thickness. Plain and consistent.

7. Expressive Line – Line that appears to spring from an artists emotions
Expressive Line – Line that appears to spring from an artists emotions. Loose and Gestural.

8. Implied Line – “Lost and Found
Implied Line – “Lost and Found.” A line that comes in and out of visibility but follows the same path. Also the path the viewers eye takes in a composition.

9. Hatching is a series of lines stacked or layered parallel to one another. They can curve as well. The more you layer the more value you can create.
Cross-Hatching – lines stacked both parallel and perpendicular to one another.

10. Scumbling- Shading technique that use the layering of short curved lines to build value.
Directional Shading- Shading along the contours of and object to create the illusion of form.

11. Color Vocabulary
Color – An element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.
Hue – the color name.
Intensity – the strength or vividness of a color
Value – the lightness or darkness of a color.
Primary Colors – Red, Blue, Yellow
Secondary Colors – Made by mixing two primary colors. Green, Violet, Orange
Tertiary Colors- Made by mixing a primary and a secondary color. Yellow-Green, Blue-Violet, Red-Orange, etc.

12. Monochromatic – Using different tints and shades of a single hue (color).

13. Analogous- using colors next to each other on the color wheel.

14. Complimentary Color- Color opposite each other on a color wheel
Complimentary Color- Color opposite each other on a color wheel. Think Broncos, Vikings, Christmas. Split- Complimentary- Using one color and two colors adjacent to it’s compliment.
Split-Complimentary

15. Split-Complimentary

16. Tips for mixing color:
Start with no more than a quarter size round of paint. (A little paint goes a surprisingly long way.)
Start with a lighter color and slowly mix in small amounts of the darker color to create a new swatch.
Mixing a color with it’s compliment will dull the color or eventually create a brown.
Certain color are more concentrated then others, for example:
Orange is mixed with mostly yellow and a little bit of red.

17. Drawing Vocab
Layout Drawing- Light drawing done in the initial stages of a realistic drawing. Meant to be erased and corrected while finding shape and form. Draw what you see not what you know.
Angles and Curves- Taking time to find the correct angles and curves during your layout drawing will give you the best results.
Horizontal and Vertical Alignments – Find distinguishable features in a drawing and aligning with other features vertical or horizontally. Aided by the use of guidelines or grids.

18. Drawing Vocab
Block-In – Using notional space boxes and envelopes to place items in a drawing.
Notional Space – Height and Width of an object. Can be measured with your pencil. I call it “boxing.”
Envelope – Object broken down into basic shape by finding big angles/ curves.

19. Drawing Vocab
Directional Shading- Shading along the contours of an object. Creates the illusion of form (3-D Shapes).
Value Scale- Gray scale. Tool used to show a gradual shift from dark to light.
Shadow Shapes- Outer shape of a shadow area. Dark shadow shapes are easier to see, but light shadow areas create these shapes as well.

20. Gesture Drawing - a laying in of the action, form, and pose of a model/figure. Typical situations involve an artist drawing a series of poses taken by a model in a short amount of time, often as little as 10 seconds, or as long as 5 minutes.
Essence-the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, that determines its character

22. Printmaking Terms
Printmaking – The process of preparing a block, plate, stencil, or screen for to create and image that can typically be reproduced.
Series or Edition- A run of prints. Anywhere from a few to thousands depending on the process and the artist.
Print – The actual picture produced from any of the printmaking processes.

23. Types of Printing
Relief Printing - Printmaking technique in which the image is printed from a raised surface, usually produced by cutting away non-image material

24. Etching – The opposite of a relief print
Etching – The opposite of a relief print. The design is produced by pressing into metal or plastic . The ink is held in the “low” part of the image. The image is inked, the surface is cleaned, and the etching portion will print.

25. Silkscreen – A print made by forcing ink through a stencil attached to woven mesh.

26. Tools
Gouges – In relief printing, a tool for clearing non- image areas from a block of wood or linoleum.
Brayer – Roller used to apply ink to a block or plate.
Baren - A round, smooth pad, either flat or slightly convex, used to press paper against an inked wood or linoleum block to lift an impression from the block.
Bench Hook – A wooden plate with raised edges used to hold the plate while printing.

27. Materials
Block- A piece of material that hold the design to be printed. Wood or linoleum in relief printing. Called a plate when etching and engraving metal or plastic.
Ink- Coloring material composed of pigment (color) , a binder, and a vehicle. Ink is usually thicker than most paints, and has a slower drying rate.

28. Cardboard Collage
Sustained Investigation – The process of working with a medium or a process enough so that new ideas and possibles begin to present themselves. It takes a focused approach and experimentation. Contrast – Creating differences in an artwork whether in value, texture, color, or busy and simple use of space.

29. Unity – Opposite of contrast. Creating sameness.
Low Relief – The process of carving or building off of a surface. To create a 3D effect. Mostly used in printmaking to build the block from which an image is pulled. Think of a stamp. That’s low relief!
Usually does not change with viewing angle.

30. High Relief - The process of removing a large portion of material from a block. Or building off of a surface to create an image or sculpture.
These images read almost like a 2-D images, but will change as your viewing angle changes.