Amorphous Shape: A shape without clarity or definition, formless, indistinct, and of uncertain dimension.

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Art: The American Heritage® Dictionary explains art as:   "Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature." I will go a step further. I would say it expands upon, adds detail to, and actually elaborates the work of nature. Let’s take, for instance, our president, George Bush.

Now here I drew the president and high lighted his good looks. But not only that, I also put in some of his accomplishments over the years. At one glance, you can see that he was in the air force, had something to do with oil, the Rangers, the state of Texas, and the United States President. With him being so well known, it’s easy to fill in the blanks.

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Biomorphic Shape: A biomorphic shape has an irregular shape with free-flowing curves that mimic living organisms.

Collage: A pictoral technique where the artist creates the image, or a portion of it, by securing real materials possessing texture to a flat surface, sometimes combining painted or drawn images.

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Color: The visual response to wavelengths of sunlight indentified as green, red, blue, etc.; having the physical properties of hue, intensity, and value.

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The color of an object is determined by what color the object reflects. If an object absorbs all light except for the yellow and blue spectrum, then we see the color as green. Those items that appear as white reflect all light; those items that appear as black absorb all light.

Please keep in mind that the visible spectrum is what human beings can see. Other organisms, like insects have the ability to see in other spectrums, like the ultraviolet spectrum, or the infa-red spectrum. Colors in these spectra are not the same as colors in our spectrum..

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Color Wheel: The Color Wheel is a circular diagram in which similar colors are sequentially placed next to each other and complementary colors are arranged opposite each other. Color wheels often include primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.

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Colors, Complementary: Complementary Colors are colors that are opposite to each other on the color wheel Examples include: blue and orange, violet and yellow, and red and green. Complementary colors enhance each other, causing high contrast and tension.

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Colors, Cool: Cool colors are colors that are dark in value, like blue, violet and green, that, when applied on the canvas, give the illusion of receding into the distance.

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Colors, Primary: Primary colors are colors that cannot be created using other colors. The three primary colors are red, blue and yellow.

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Colors, Secondary: Secondary colors are colors created from the three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow. Red and blue form violet, red and yellow form orange, and blue and yellow make green. A true or pure secondary color must have equal parts of two pure primary colors to create the pure secondary color. In practice, however, this may not be possible due to conflicting components in the physical substance.

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