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Romy C Art English 18 cards

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1What is tone?The lightness or darkness of a colour
2What is a tint?White added to a colour
3What is a shade?The black added to a colour
4What are primary colours?The basic colours from which all other colours are formed
5What are the primary colours?Red, yellow and blue
6What are secondary colours?The colours made by mixing two primary colours together
7What are the secondary colours?Green, orange and purple
8What are tertiary colours?Colours made from mixing different amounts of the primary colours
9What are the tertiary colours?Maroon, khaki and browm
10What are 6 painting techniques?Flat, blended, broken colour, scumbling, washes and sgraffito
11What is the flat technique?The tone of the colour is even with no graduation
12What is the blended technique?the tone of the colour is modulated with the addition of black and white
13What is the broken colour technique?applying separate strokes of unmixed colour
14What is the scumbling technique?a motion of brush which allows the colour underneath to show through
15What is the washes technique?Layers of thin, transparent paint
16What is the sgraffito technique?scratching into the paint
17What are the 7 visual qualities?Line, direction, shape, size, colour, texture and tone
18What are the 5 formal qualitiesHarmony, contrast, balance, rhythm, dominance