LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU SOON FOR ART WITH Mrs. Kilcline 2022-23!                                                                    

Sample photos of our students in action will be posted here soon so come in and take a peek as the year unfolds! 
 

1. Plastic zip loc bags-gallon size, sandwich and snack size
2. Liquid Watercolors                                                                   
3. Smooth beach stones, large and medium sized           
4. Artist Charcoal (compressed or vine)
5. 12 x 18 white drawing paper. (heavy weight)
6. Paper towels, disinfecting hand wipes, clorox table wipes.

Please consider adopting the art room!  

MsAdler welcomes cash or gift card donations to Amazon, Walmart, Michael's or local art supply stores to purchase art supplies that will diretly benefit the art program.  

ART VOCABULARY  

Here is a list of art vocabulary words and curriculum concepts that are explored in art starting in elementary through 8th grade:
2D OR TWO- DIMENSIONAL:  things that look flat. For example, a square is a 2-D shape.

3D OR THREE- DIMENSIONAL:  things that look (or are) solid. For example, a cube is a 3-D shape.
ABSTRACT:  art that does not attempt to represent the appearance of objects, real or imaginary. The artist takes an image or object and changes its appearance by leaving out details, simplifying or rearranging its parts to express his or her idea or feeling. Abstraction can occur in varying degrees, perhaps to the extent where you may not recognize the subject in the final product. Abstract work with no recognizable subject matter is called non-objective art.
ACRYLIC:  pigment in a plastic binder medium; water-based paint that adheres to most surfaces.
ARCHITECTURE:  the art of making plans for buildings or a style of building .
ART:  things made to be looked at, especially paintings and sculptures. It can also be used to describe anything creative, including music and poetry.
ART CRITIQUE:  describing and evaluating the media, processes, and meanings of works of visual arts, and making comparative judgments.
ART ELEMENTS:  visual arts components such as line, texture, color, form, value, and space.
ART HISTORY:  a record of the visual arts, incorporating information, interpretations, and judgments about art objects, artists, and conceptual influences on developments in the visual arts.
ARTIFACT: hand-made object that represents a particular culture or period.
ART MOVEMENT:  a group of artists who work together and share ideas, and often hold joint exhibitions.
ASSEMBLAGE: a sculpture created of related or unrelated materials.
ASYMMETRICAL:  different on either side of a central axis.
BACKGROUND:  the part of a picture that appears to be farthest away from the viewer.
BALANCE:  equilibrium in a composition, either symmetrical or asymmetrical
mechanical press.
BAS-RELIEF:  low-relief sculpture that projects slightly from a background
BLEEDING:  the tendency for some colors to show through a second layer of paint.
BLENDING:  the transition of color from one tone to another; for example, in a sky
BLOCK:  a piece of material with a hand-cut design on its surface from which multiple copies are printed.
BRAYER:  a rubber roller used to apply ink in printmaking
BRUSH STROKES:  marks in paint made by a brush
BUST:  sculpture of head, neck, and sometimes shoulders
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CALLIGRAPHY:  fine handwriting in ink with a quill, reed pen, or brush; follows specific rules or designs
CANVAS:  a strong cloth which, since the Renaissance, many artists have used as a surface for painting
CARTOON:  full-scale drawing for tapestry or wall painting; or a humorous satirical drawing
CARVING:  a subtractive method of sculpture; taking away wood or stone
CLAY:  a moist earth of decomposed rock; used in products such as pottery, bricks, tiles, and sculpture
COILING:  a method of creating pots by building bottom and walls with even, ropelike coils
COLLAGE:  a work of art created by arranging and gluing assorted materials onto a flat surface.
COLOR WHEEL:  an arrangement of colors that shows how to mix the primary colors to create new colors.
COLORS:
Analogous-colors closely related on a color wheel. Example: red, red-orange, yellow
Complementary - colors which fall directly opposite each other on the color wheel. Example: blue/orange
Primary - Blue, yellow, red. Colors from which all other colors are derived. Primary colors cannot be mixed from other colors
Secondary colors - colors made by mixing equal proportions of any two primary colors. Example: red + blue = violet
Cool -blues, greens
Warm - reds, yellows
Monochromatic-a color scheme that involves different values of a single color
Neutral-complementary colors mixed to produce a dull, subdued color (variations of gray); the non-colors of black and white
COMPOSITION:  the placement of forms, shapes, colors, and light and dark areas in a work of art. Artists use composition to direct the viewer's eye to the most important elements of a work of art.
CONTOUR LINES:  outside and inside lines defining an image or shape.
CONTRAST:  to set in opposition for the purpose of comparison.
CRAYON:  a stick of wax used for coloring or drawing.

CRAY-PAS:  an oily crayon used for coloring, drawing, and blending

CROSSHATCH:  to create differences in value through a crossed series of parallel lines

CUBISM:  natural forms changed by geometrical reduction

DEPTH:  the illusion of space in a picture plane.

DESIGN:  the organization of line, form, color, value, texture and space in an eye-pleasing arrangement

DETAILS:  dealing with some item by showing all of the particulars

DRAWING:  usually a work in pen, pencil, or charcoal on

DRYBRUSH:  a technique used with wet media applied with an almost-empty brush

EASEL:  a support for an artist's canvas during painting

EDITION:  signing, numbering, and dating a print

ELEMENTS OF ART:  the visual "tools" artists use to create art. The categories include line, color, shape, space, light and texture

EMBELLISH:  to add ornamental details to

EMPHASIS:  a design principle that gives dominance to a particular area through color, size, or repetition 

EXPRESSIONISM:  the painting of feelings, sometimes with recognizable images, often totally abstract

FIGURE:  the human or animal form used in creating art

FIRING:  making clay products permanent through baking at high temperatures in a kiln

FOCAL POINT:  an area of an artwork that first attracts and usually sustains the viewer's attention

FOREGROUND:  in a scene or artwork, the part that seems closest to the viewer

FORESHORTENING:  the technique of distortion in perspective in order for the subject to appear 3-dimensional 

FORM:  a three-dimensional shape, such as the human form or an abstract form

FOUND OBJECT:  an object which an artist has not made, but has chosen to exhibit as a work of art. It can be a natural object, such as driftwood, or a man-made object such as a bottle

FREE-FORM:  irregular shapes or forms; shapes that are not geometric

FUNCTIONAL:  having a special purpose

GEOMETRIC:  shapes and forms related to mathematical principles. Geometric shapes include circles, squares, rectangles, triangles and ellipses. Geometric forms include cones, cubes, cylinders, slabs, pyramids and spheres

GESSO:  an under painting medium made of glue, plaster of Paris or chalk and water

GESTURE:  the implication of motion in a shape

GLUE:  a jelly-like protein substance used for sticking things together

GRID:  network of crossing lines used to create a regular pattern

HIGHLIGHT:  a light area that represents the reflection of light

HORIZON LINE:  a level line where water or land seems to end and the sky begins. It is usually on the eye level of the observer. If the horizon cannot be seen, its placement may be imagined based on the placement of trees, grasses, mountains and the like.

HORIZONTAL:  side to side and parallel to the horizon

HUE:  refers to the common name of the color such as red or green

ILLUSTRATION:  work of art created to accompany a story or other literary work in print. Illustrations usually appear in reproduced form in books, magazines and newspapers

IMPRESSIONISM:  a style of painting that seeks to represent the momentary effects of sunlight on color. The main interest was in depicting contemporary life in a new objective manner by rendering an "impression" of what the eye sees in one particular moment rather than what the mind knows to be there

INK:  usually a liquid colored material used in printmaking. 

INTENSITY:  color used in its purest hue without mixing can be said to have its purest intensity

KILN:  an oven for drying, firing and glazing clay

LANDSCAPE:  the scenery of an inland area, a painting or drawing of the land or natural environment

LAYER:  lying over or under another

LINE:  the path traced by a moving point

MEDIUM:  the material used to make a work of art. Examples include oil, watercolor, pencil, pen and ink, tempera, and pastel

MEMORY:  something remembered

MIDDLEGROUND:  the part of the painting that lies between the background and the foreground

MIXED MEDIA:  used to describe art made from more than one material or medium

MOBILE/STABILE:  terms coined to describe work created by Alexander Calder: the mobile is a hanging, movable sculpture; the stabile rests on the ground but may also have moving parts.

MODEL: one who poses for an artist

MOSAIC:  a design or picture created by imbedding stones or pieces of glass on a floor, vault or wall

MURAL:  a large painting or artwork, generally designed for and created on the wall or ceiling of a public building

MUSEUM/GALLERY:  A place where collections of objects, artifacts, and art are on display and are protected

NEGATIVE SPACE:  the area surrounding a shape, often seen as a void

OP ART:  short for "Optical Art." An art movement in the 1950's-60's where artists used abstract, geometric shapes and patterns to create optical illusions and the impression of movement

OPTICAL ILLUSION:  image that appears different than it actually is

ORGANIC:  having a quality that resembles living things, also referred to as free flowing, non-geometric

ORIGAMI: Japanese art of paper folding

PAINT:  apply liquid color to a surface

PAINTBRUSH:  a brush tool for applying paint

PALETTE:  a tray or board on which colors of paint are mixed. Also, the set of colors used by an artist in a painting

PATRONS:  people who pay artists to produce work for them

PATTERN:  a design made by repeating a motif at regular intervals

PERSPECTIVE:  a technique for creating the illusion of depth on a 2-D surface

PHOTOGRAPHER:  a person who takes photographs

POINTILLISM:  the application of pure color in small dots, allowing the eye to mix (such as red and blue dots side by side, which the eye sees as violet). It was developed in 1855 by Georges Seurat. 

POP ART:  a mid-20th-century British and American art movement which used images from popular culture, such as comic strips and advertisements. Andy Warhol was a famous Pop artist.

PORTRAIT:  a picture of a person or images that portray a person

POSE:  to sit or stand still for an artist

POTTERY:  earthen pots, vessels, dishes, etc.

PRINT:  a work of art created from a "plate" that has been transformed through a technique such as engraving, etching, or woodcut and then inked and transferred to paper

PROPORTION:  the relationship of one object to another in size, shape, number or degree

RAINBOW:  an arc of colors made from the sun and refraction of water.

RADIAL DESIGN:  branching out from the middle. 

REALISM: (1850-1900) a style in which an artist tries to create an image that resembles the natural world

REFLECTION:  a repeating tessellated shape that mirrors itself

RESIST:  something that opposes a particular action, as in crayon resist.

RHYTHM:  the controlled movements found in all good design, they can be established through the use of any of the elements of design--lines, areas of light and shade, spots of color, repetitions of shapes and spaces, or textures surfaces

RUBBINGS:  to use pressure and friction over a piece of paper to capture the texture

SCISSORS: a cutting instrument for paper

SCORING:  making marks on the edges of two pieces of clay before joining with slip

SCULPTURE:  a statue or 3-D work of art

SEASCAPE:  artwork that shows a scene of the sea, ocean, large lake or coastline

SHADE: any color mixed with black

SHADING: using lines, dots or other blending techniques to make things look three dimensional.

SHAPE:  the outline of a figure or form. Shapes can be geometric (rectangles, triangles, and circles, etc.) or organic (irregular)

SILHOUETTE:  portrait or picture cut from black paper or done in solid black upon a light background

SKETCH:  a rough outline or drawing showing the main features of something

SMOCK:  a loose outer garment worn especially for protection of clothing

SPACE:  Actual: 2D space as in drawings, paintings or prints on flat surfaces, or 3D as in sculptures, architecture or ceramics 

Pictorial: the flat surface of the paper, canvas, or other material and is also known as the picture plane

STAINED GLASS:  pieces of colored glass put together to make a picture

STENCILING:  applying paint to a wall or cloth surface through a hole cut in metal or oiled cardboard

STILL LIFE:  an arrangement of fruit, flowers, food or assorted unmoving objects. The plural is "still lifes" (not "lives"). 

STUDY:  a drawing that may be used to try out an idea or plan out another work

SURREALISM:  a 20th-century art movement which used bizarre, dream-like images. Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali were famous Surrealists.

SYMBOL:  something that stands for something else; especially a letter, figure or sign that represents a real object or idea

SYMMETRY:  the placement of the same elements on either side of a dividing line in such a way that they form a mirror image of each other

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TEMPERA:  a type of paint made from a mixture of powdered pigments (colors), egg yolk, and distilled water. Tempera paintings are usually done on wooden boards

TEMPLATE:  a contour such as one made out of cardboard in which an artist can form a piece of clay

TEXTURE:  the way something feels to the touch. Texture can be real, as in the smoothness of a bronze sculpture, or the bumpiness of thick oil paint on a canvas. Texture can also be implied or imagined, as in painted illusions of the softness of a kitten's fur, or the prickly quality of hay

THEME:  the main idea underlying the subject in a work of art

THUMBNAIL SKETCHES:  small sketches.

TILE:  a repeating design that covers and entire surface

TINT: any color mixed with white

TONE:  harmony in colors and values in an artwork

TRANSLUCENT:  clear enough to allow light to pass through

TRANSPARENT: see through

VALUE:  the measurement of light and darkness in a work of art

VANISHING POINT:  term used in perspective; all lines lead to this point which may be on or off the canvas

VERTICAL: up and down

VISUAL TEXTURE:  texture that you can see or that an artist will decorate a surface with. You can not feel visual texture

WASH:  pigment diluted with water and applied to a painting surface to give a translucent effect

WATERCOLOR:  a type of paint made from a mixture of powdered pigments (colors) with a binder and water. Watercolor painting usually transparent, meaning that you can see through it to the surface beneath. Opaque paints (paints that you cannot see through) that are mixed with water are called gouache

WATERCOLOR WASH:  a thin or watery coating of paint

WEDGING:  kneading moist clay to eliminate air bubbles and produce a uniform texture

WET-IN-WET:  the action of spreading paint when new pigment is added to a wet paper

WOODCUT:  a print made when the surface of a block of wood is transformed through cutting, then inked and transferred to paper