1. ART WORDS THESE WORDS HAVE SPECIAL MEANINGS YOU MUST LEARN THEM!

2. PATTERN WHEN A SHAPE, IMAGE, COLOUR OR LINE IS REPEATED OR GATHERED TOGETHER.

3. TEXTURE HOW THE SURFACE OF SOMETHING FEELS.

4. COLOUR THERE ARE 3 PRIMARY COLOURS: RED, YELLOW AND BLUE. BY MIXING ANY 2 PRIMARY COLOURS TOGETHER WE GET A SECONDARY COLOUR. YELLOW & BLUE = GREEN BLUE & RED = PURPLE RED & YELLOW = ORANGE

5. LINE A SINGLE LONG MARK MADE BY AN IMPLEMENT.

6. TONE DIFFERENT DEGREES OF LIGHTNESS AND DARKNESS. YOU CAN USE A PENCIL TO SHADE OR MAKE COLOURS LIGHTER OR DARKER. THIS MAKES OBJECTS LOOK REAL AND SOLID.

7. SHAPE THE OUTLINE OR FORM OF SOMETHING.

8. FORM THE SOLID 3 DIMENSIONAL SHAPE.

9. MEDIUM THE TOOLS AND MATERIALS USED BY AN ARTIST.

10. SYMMETRY WHEN TWO SIDES OR HALVES ARE NEARLY THE SAME.

11. 2 DIMENSIONAL HAVING LENGTH AND WIDTH ONLY, SOMETHING WHICH IS FLAT.

12. 3 DIMENSIONAL HAVING LENGTH, WIDTH AND DEPTH. SOMETHING WHICH IS SOLID AND LOOKS REAL.

13. COLLAGE AN IMAGE CREATED BY MEANS OF STICKING MATERIALS, (USUALLY TORN OR CUT PAPER) TO THE PICTURES SURFACE.

14. STILL LIFE A PAINTING OR DRAWING OF INANIMATE OBJECTS.

15. LANDSCAPE A PICTURE OF A TOWN OR COUNTRYSIDE, A COMPOSITION THAT IS SIDEWAYS.

16. PORTRAITS A PICTURE OF A PERSON, ALSO A COMPOSITION THAT IS UPRIGHT.

17. BATIK A WAY OF DECORATING FABRIC IN WHICH HOT WAX IS USED TO RESIST DYEING.

18. COMPOSITION A WHOLE PICTURE THAT IS BALANCED AND PLEASING, AN ARRANGEMENT.

19. FOREGROUND/ BACKGROUND THE FRONT OF A COMPOSITION AND THAT WHICH IS BEHIND IT.

20. SCALE THE SIZE OF AN OBJECT NEXT TO OTHERS.

21. SKETCH A ROUGH DRAWING. A SMALL SCALE TRIAL RUN TO SEE IF IDEAS WORK.

22. SPACE THE DISTANCE AROUND AND BETWEEN THINGS.

23. PERSPECTIVE A WAY OF MAKING A DRAWING OR PAINTING LOOK DEEP AND REAL. A METHOD OF MAKING THINGS APPEAR NEAR OR FAR.

24. ABSTRACT TO TAKE OUT, OR REMOVE PARTS OF OBJECTS IN A COMPOSITION, SO THAT WORKS OF ART DO NOT LOOK LIKE REAL OR RECOGNISABLE OBJECTS.

25. FIGURATIVE WORKS OF ART IN WHICH WE CAN EASILY RECOGNISE OBJECTS FROM THE WORLD WE KNOW.

26. IMPRESSIONISTIC A WORK OF ART WHICH SHOWS AN IMPRESSION RATHER THAN A CLEAR PICTURE OF NATURE.

27. SURREALISTIC IMAGINED PICTURES AND OBJECTS FOUND IN FANTASY AND DREAMS.

28. CUBISM A revolutionary movement begun by Picasso and Braque in the early twentieth century. It employs an analytic vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints.