Homework 4

Vocabulary

Chapter 9: Texture

Texture: the suggested quality of a surface

Tactile Texture: the usage of actual materials to portray a certain texture

Impasto: the layering on of paint to create a built up three dimensional surface.

Value: a scale the measures different weights of light and dark color

Collage: the arrangement of overlapped pieces of mixed media; often paper

Visual Texture: the use of various colors that intermingle and imply a certain texture even

   though a surface is flat

Trompe l’oeil “fool to the eye”: the main idea of using visual texture

Pattern: a motif that repeats itself over and over again

Chapter 12: Value

Value: the artistic term to describe lights and darks

Achromatic: used to describe grays when they are strictly a mixture of black and white

Value-Contrast: the relationship between spaces that are light and dark

Chromatic: gray that can be produced by two colors that counter act each other to a gray neutral

Value Pattern: the selective placement and variation of certain lights and darks regardless of the colors used

Chiaroscuro: the usage of light s and darks to suggest the depth/volume of an object or space

Aerial Perspective: the usage of light s and darks to depict less distinct objects in the distance

Atmospheric Perspective: see Aerial Perspective

Shading: a visual effect with value to imply a texture

Cross-Hatching: black lines of various thicknesses to going in opposing directions on a white surface to give the implication of grays

Applying Concepts

Chapter 9

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2. Using a grid to create a pattern aids an artist in making a design more unified. A grid ensures the proper measurements to make various motifs equal distances apart.

3. A pattern is a precise repetition of a design. While a texture does have repetition, the arrangement is much more randomized than the carefully thought out placement of a pattern.

4. A texture can be used to create visual interest because it would give an object a different quality as opposed to if it was just kept a plain two dimensional surface; a “feast for the eyes”

5. An actual texture is a literal material that has form that protrudes from a 2 dimensional surface. An implied texture is simply a flat surface that by way of value, that suggests a three dimensional texture.

6. A collage is the arrangement of various pieces of media that is most often believed to be random.

7. Trompe l’oeil is the concept of using texture to add visual interest and dimension to an otherwise two dimensional surface

Chapter 12

1. Value is the manipulation of various lights and darks to create depth. A value scale is a gradual progression or grays to measure how dark or light a value is.

2.Achromatic Gray is a hue that is purely made of blacks and whites

3. Value contrast is the interaction of light and dark areas in a single composition

4. Balance can be created with value in a composition based upon a particular placement the various values are arranged. However, unity can also be achieved through a gradual transition

5. Emphasis can be created with value by making a single section of a composition darker/lighter than the rest of it. This will draw the viewer’s eye in to make a focal point

6. Chiaroscuro was use during the Renaissance Period to portray certain depths. For example, on objects with a darker value could be perceived as being closer up with more detail, or as being lower (such as a shadow)

7. Aerial and Atmospheric perspective is the idea that objects that are further away are seen as a lighter value with little to no detail (such as a landscape)