The Seven Design Ideas are - Unity, Contrast, Dominance, Repetition, Harmony, Balance, Gradation. The Seven Design Marks are - Line, Shape, Tone, Colour, Texture, Size, Direction. Counterpoint - Opposing design ideas used to create tension. Counter-change - Opposing design marks used to create balance. Juxtaposition - Changes in two or more elements that oppose each other. Visual Hierarchy - This is where you create a primary, secondary and tertiary focal point to guide the viewers eye through the picture, this can be done using colour, edges, shapes, composition whatever, so long as there is a main area with a few other subordinate areas in the picture e.g. Give objects differing spaces from the edge of the canvas, keep groups of objects uneven e.g. 1,3,5,7,9,11 and of differing sizes and shapes, Overlapping objects can deceive the eye into seeing recession. Golden Section - Divide the canvas by the Golden Mean 2:62. Tic-Tac-Toe - Divide the canvas into thirds i.e. 9 squares. Table-Top Composition - Reads from front to back and has deeper recession looking down on top. Shelf-Top Composition - Reads from Left to Right and you are looking straight on. Binder or Vehicle - The liquid the pigment is suspended in. Pigment - The coloured powder or crystals that make the paint. Lightfast - Ranging from Permenent and lasting over 100 years in strong sunlight, to Fugitive when there is no longevity. Colour Family - Groups of hues on the colour wheel e.g. all yellows, all blues, all reds. Hue - Local colour e.g Primaries like red or yellow or blue, Secondaries like orange or violet or green, tertiaries like a mix of these. Value - The Relative Lightness or Darkness of a colour. Temperature - Warm colours advance, Cool colours recede. Mass-tone: A colours relative warmth or coolness straight from the tube. Undertone: A colours relative warmth or coolness when brushed out. Chroma - Tint is the colour plus white, Tone is the colour plus gray, Shade is the colour plus black. Saturation: Brilliant or Dull Luminosity: Pure or Muddy Mother Colour/Key Colour - The same colour used in all of the mixes and is linked to the Atmospheric Key in a painting. Compliments - Are opposite each other on the colour wheel. Split Compliments - Are opposite each other with one either side of the compliment. Diad - Using two colours that are two colours apart from each other on the colour wheel. Triad - Three colours equally spaced from each other on the colour wheel. Tetrad - A contrast of four or more colours on the colour wheel. Analogous - Using two colours that are side by side on the colour wheel. Polychromatic - Multiple colours used. Mono-Chromatic - One colour in a variety of tones. Achromatic - Black and White with a variety of gray in-between. Transparent - The colour from underneath shows through. Translucent - The colour from underneath only partially shows through. Opaque or Body Colour - The colour from underneath does not show through because of the colour on top. Tinting Strength - The relative colouring power of one pigment when mixed with Another. Colour String - Gradations of colour that form strings on the palette according to tone, or temperature or hue or chroma or all of these. Colour Notes - Patches of colour that go to create form. Prismatic Colour - Pure and Brilliant primary colour. Earth Colour - Gray and muddy colour. Neutral/Non-Colour - A colour that has lost its Chromatic Identity because it has been mixed with its compliment on the colour wheel, making it more neutral by Breaking the colour. Colour Contrast - Two compliments side by side that make each other brighter. Successive Contrast - Seeing one colour in the compliment of another. Simultaneous Contrast - The merging of two complimentary colours. Value Contrast - Light against Dark or vice versa. Value Massing - Grouping together areas of broadly similar Light and Dark values to create an abstract pattern of shapes.