Hard-Edge Painting: A style of painting that excludes all reference to gesture, incorporating smooth, geometric forms to express that painting should be about form and nothing else.

-Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Harmony: The quality of relating the visual elements of a composition. Harmony is achieved by repetition of characteristics that are the same or similar.

-Art Fundamentals

Hatching: A technique used in drawing and engraving where fine lines are cut or drawn together to achieve different values

-Art Fundamentals

Hierarchy of Scale: An artistic convention where greater size indicated greater importance.

-Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Highlight: The portion of the object that, from the observers point of view, receives the greatest amount of direct light.

-Art Fundamentals

Horror Vacui: Literally means fear of empty space. It is a technique of design where an entire surface is covered with a pattern.

-Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Hue: Technical word for color, examples: blue, red, green. Hues are determined by the specific wavelengths of the color in the ray of light that they most reflect.

-Art Fundamentals