Colors with Pollack ART SMART

Cool Colors

Warm Colors

The RYB Color Wheel

Intermediate (Tertiary) Colors

Colors made by mixing ◦ either one primary color with one secondary color◦ or two secondary colors

Some examples: Red + Orange Yellow + Orange Yellow + Green Blue + Green

Analogous Colors These are colors that are located next to one another on the color wheel and have one color in common.

Complementary Colors

Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel

Chromatic

having color

Achromatic

free of color

Monochromatic

having one color

Intensity

brightness of a color

ValueThe lightness or darkness of a color

Shade: dark value of a color.

Color + black

Tint: light value of a color.

Color + white

Line An element of Art

The flat path of a dot through space

Used by artists to control the viewer’s eye movement

Lines can be curved, straight, dotted, vertical or horizontal

Composition Create, design or form something by arranging parts to create a unified whole

Jackson Pollock 1912 – 1956

Born in Wyoming, US

At 17 he studied at the Art Students league in New York City

Known as the “Abstract Expressionist”

Abstract Expressionism

Artistic movement where artists work without a subject

Emotions expressed with great passion and drama

Techniques used by Pollock

Drip and Pour

No. 5, 1948Done on an 8' × 4' sheet of fiberboard, with thick amounts of brown and yellow paint drizzled on top of it, forming a nest-like appearance.

Private collection, New York.

Jackson Pollock Quote

“The method of painting is a natural growth out of need. I want to express my feelings

rather than illustrate them.”