Art Vocabulary Word Wall

Infuse literacy into your elementary art lessons with my art vocabulary word wall! Help meet literacy goals with age-appropriate, standards-based art vocabulary terms in an eye-catching way. Use them in your SGO/SLO to increase recognition and retention of important visual art vocabulary. They make a visually stunning art room bulletin board, too!

And even better, I’ve created this bulletin board kit to include an editable version.

I have printed both the small and large sizes paint cans and each time it prints out flawlessly. In my previous elementary art room, I printed the large word wall. Then, I posted it all along the long bulletin board that ran across the back of my room. The words were easy to read a distance away.

• Colorful, printable posters in 3 sizes, so students can see them from afar
• Editable PowerPoint docs, so you can create your own vocabulary words for elementary art
• 3 Poster sizes, so you can print either at home, school, or an online print shop. And, so you can fit it on your bulletin board easily!

Vocabulary Words

• A – Abstract, analogous, animation, armature, artist, appliqué. architect, assemblage
• B – Background, balance, barren, batik, bisqueware, blend, blotting, brayer
• C – calligraphy, canvas, casting, ceramics, charcoal,  coil method, collage, collograph, contour
• D – decoupage, depth, designer, diagonal, digital, drawing, dry brush, dye
• E – easel, egg tempera, embossing, embroidery, emphasis, etching, exhibit, expression
• F – facade, fiber, figure, firing, foreground, focal point, foreshortening, fresco
• G – gel, geometric, gesso, gesture drawing, glassblowing, graphics, greenware, guidelines
• H – hand build, hatching, height, hieroglyph, highlight, high relier, horizon line, hue
• I – illustrator, impasto, implied texture, incise, ink, intensity, intermediate, iridescent
• J – jagged, jamb, jaunting tool, jeweler, jewelry, join, journal, juxtaposition
• K – kente cloth, keystone, kickwheel, kiln, kinetic art, knead, knife painting, knitting
• L – landscape, leather hard, lettering, linseed oil, lintel, lithograph, loom, low-relief
• M – maquette, marbling, masking fluid, media, middle ground, monoprint, mosaic, mural
• N – nave, needle, needlework, negative space, neutral colors, newsprint, nib, nonobjective
• O – oil paint, oil pastel, opaque, optical illusion, organic shape, origami, overlap, overpainting
• P – paintbrush, palette, papier-mache, perspective, photomontage, portrait, pottery, proportion
• Q – quill, quilling, quilt, quadrilateral, quality, quoin
• R – radial balance, realistic, relief sculpture, render, repetition, resin, resist, rough
• S – seascape, self-portrait, sgraffito, shading, silhouette, sketch, stipple, stitchery
• T – tapestry, technique, tempera, tessellation, tint, torchon, transparent, tube
• U- unity, undercut, underglaze, underpainting, untitled
• V – value, vanishing point, varnish, vector, vertical, vessel, viewfinder, visual texture
• W – warp, watercolor, weaving, wedge, weft, wet-on-wet, wheel thrown, woodcut
• X, Y, and Z – x-acto knife, yarn, yellowing, zigzag, zinc white, zoetrope, zoom lens

• Understand visual arts concepts
• Talk about artwork
• Participate in discussions
• Broaden their vocabulary
• Meet state & local art education standards

You Will Receive

• 3 Non-Editable PowerPoints (small & med. on 8.5×11; large on 11×17)
• 3 Editable PowerPoints (small & med. on 8.5×11; large on 11×17)
• “Art Vocabulary” Alphabet Letters in 2 Sizes (3.5” and 5.5“ letters on 8.5×11)
• Borders in 2 Shades of Gray (on 8.5×11)
• 186 Art Vocabulary Words

Why You’ll Love It

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I have them hanging from a rope from my ceiling. I used chenille sticks as handles and printed backs by flipping them and colouring over the writing. Looks great. ~ Lynette Z.

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These posters are beautiful and useful. They add a nice pop of color to my bare walls as this is my first year in an art room. ~ Shelbi T.

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This resource was such a fun way to display all the different terms we used during the year. I love the rainbow order of the paint cans. My students even noticed that the cans were in rainbow order. ~ Theresa W.