Critiquing Tools

Art Vocabulary List

Opaque
1. Impenetrable by light; neither transparent nor translucent.
2. Not reflecting light; having no luster: an opaque finish.
3. Impenetrable by a form of radiant energy other than visible light:

Cross Hatch
1.To mark or shade with two or more sets of intersecting parallel lines.
2. A pattern made by such lines.
3. The symbol (#).

Emphasis
A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.

Pattern
A type of theme of recurring events or objects sometimes referred to as elements of a set.

Negative Space
The space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, and not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space is occasionally used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.


Adjective List

Curved
Deviating from a straight line

Flowing
To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid.

Thick
Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension; not thin.

Organic
Of, relating to, or derived from living organisms: organic matter. In terms of design with the shape or texture of something organic.

Concave
Curved like the inner surface of a sphere


Sources

http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/contrast/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://dictionary.reference.com/