A fast-drying paint containing pigment suspended in an plastic polymer emulsion (liquid suspension).
What is acrylic paint?
100
By the 1950s, artists began using this type of quick-drying paint to avoid oil paint’s considerable drying time.
What is Acrylic Paint?
100
This type of acrylic paint have working characteristics similar to professional artist acrylics, but with lower pigment concentrations, less expensive formulas, and a smaller range of colors.
What are student acrylics?
100
Squeeze only a little paint out of a tube at a time due to this factor of acrylic paints.
What is acrylics dry so fast?
100
This is one of the most famous artists of the pop art movement.
Who is Andy Warhol?
200
The technique of smoothing drawn or painted areas.
What is blending?
200
In the late 1940's, Polymer-based acrylic paint entered the market as what type of paint.
What is house paint?
200
This type of acrylics are safe for younger artists, and economical for classroom use.
What are Scholastic Acrylics?
200
Misshapen synthetic brushes can sometimes be reshaped by soaking them in this substance.
What is hot water (not boiling)?
200
This artist is famed for the acrylic paintings in the Number Series.
Who is Mark Rothko?
300
This type of material is available in panels, stretched on frames, or can be obtained by the yard.
What is canvas?
300
In 1901, a noted chemist by the name of Dr. Otto Rohm developed this in his German laboratory.
What is the first synthetic acrylic resin?
300
In reference to acrylic paint, this word refers to the viscosity or thickness of the paint
What is body?
300
If applied thickly – either straight from the tube or with very little water added – or if mixed with a little titanium white, all acrylic colors can become this.
What is opaque?
300
At the height of this artist's career, he used regular house paint as opposed to artist paint. He did experiment with acrylics earlier in his career.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
400
This is the intensity, strength, or purity of a color.
What is chroma?
400
Offering a range of possibilities, acrylic can produce both the soft effects of this type of paint and sharp effects of layering this type of paint.
What is watercolor and oil paint?
400
These paints were created to address the one major difference between oil and acrylic paints, the shortened drying time of acrylic paints.
What are opened acrylics?
400
This type of palette allows the paint to sit on a sheet of wax paper placed on top of a damp piece of watercolor paper – eliminating the need to spray your paints, but generally don't have a hole for your thumb so are more awkward to hold in your hand.
What are stay wet palettes?
400
This artist got his inspiration from literature and current events. His abstract paintings often depicted violent chaos.
Who is Robert Motherwell?
500
Round, ran, filbert, and flat.
What are types of brushes.
500
1. Dries quickly, 2. Even sheen, 3. Durable and 4. Not influenced by water.
What are the benefits of acrylic based paint?
500
Iridescent, pearl and interference acrylic colors combine conventional pigments with this substance to achieve complex effects.
What is powdered mica (aluminium silicate) or powdered bronze
500
This can be used to make hard edges on a painting.
What is masking tape?
500
This American pop artist is most famous for his cartoon and comic book inspired paintings.