Critiquing Tools by Bigboi158

Art vocabulary list

Symmetry - an imprecise sense of harmonious or aesthetically pleasing proportion and balance. 

Back Ground - The background of an image, artwork or design.  

Hierarchy - Arranges elements to create focal points by positioning their priority within a concept as a whole.

Cross Hatch - An artistic technique used to create tone and shading effects. When the lines are placed at an angle to one another, this is called cross hatching.

Adjective list
thick- describing something that’s thick in size or weight. For example, a thick brush stroke could refer to the size and/or the amount of paint put on.

Outline- The outline of the boundaries of an object which creates its shape. 

Contrast- To show differences when compared. For example two colours contrasting one another.

Dull - no brightness of colour, boring, not intense. 

Principles and Elements of Design list 

Stability - sense of equilibrium.

Dynamics-Dynamics is the arrangement of visual elements in a composition to suggest movement or direction.

Rhythm can be described as timed movement through space; an easy connected path.

Scale- the overall size of objects.

Line- The line marks made with a pen or brush or the edge created when two shapes meet.

Colour - Also called Hue, Colour is seen either by the way light reflects off a surface, or in coloured light sources.

Texture is perceived surface quality.

Shape - A shape is a self contained area of geometric or organic form.

Form is any three dimensional object which can be defined by light and dark.

Bibliography

http://www.wiu.edu/art/courses/design/principles.htm

http://www.makart.com/resources/artclass/EPlist.html

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/tutorials/design/design/#seven

http://www.educ.kent.edu/community/vlo/design/principles/index.html