Light and Shadow
This is the lightest spot on an object where the light hits most directly.
What is a highlight?
Red, yellow, and blue are called this group of colors.
What are the primary colors?
When you split your paper into four equal sections and draw one section at a time to help with proportional accuracy, you are drawing in these.
What are quadrants?
This smooth, shiny drawing material is found inside most regular pencils.
What is graphite?
This Dutch artist drew the man sitting on the chair and is known for thick, expressive pencil marks.
Who is VanGogh?
This is the range of light to dark in a drawing or painting.
What is value?
Orange, green, and purple are called this group of colors.
What are the secondary colors?
This strategy that we used with the horses helps your brain focus on shapes and lines instead of “things.” This method is called what?
What is drawing upside down?
This black, dusty drawing material can make very dark values and is great for expressive shading.
What is charcoal?
This Spanish artist is known for Cubism and he drew his self portrait in charcoal before he started to break faces into geometric shapes.
Who is Picasso?
This type of shadow is the darker band that appears where an object turns away from the light, between the light side and the darkest side.
What is a crest shadow?
On the color wheel, colors that are opposite each other, like red and green, are called this.
What are complementary colors?
If under your clothes you wear your underwear, under your paintings, there is your ________.
What is an underpainting?
This liquid medium is often used with pens and brushes to make strong, dark lines that cannot be erased.
What is ink?
This American artist is famous for elegant portraits with loose, confident marks, and drew the nude we copied in class.
Who is Sargent?
When you carefully blend from light to dark to show how light falls on an object, you are doing this.
What is shading?
When you mix complementary colors together, like red and green or blue and orange, the result is this kind of color.
What is a neutral?
Carefully comparing where each part of the drawing measures against other parts of the drawing by using your pencil as a ruler helps you with this part of your work.
What is proportion?
When you cover your paper with a light, even layer of charcoal dust or graphite powder before you begin drawing the darker values, you are doing this.
Answer: What is laying a ground?
When you re-draw Picasso, Sargent, or Van Gogh, you were learning by closely copying or observing their work. What is this kind of practice usually called?
What is a study?
This type of shadow is seen on the table surface or background where the object blocks the light.
What is a cast shadow?
In painting, this is a first layer of color that goes under the main painting to help set the values and mood.
What is an underpainting?
When you start your drawing by tracing it on a clear piece of plastic with a dry erase marker, you are focusing on the accuracy on this part of your drawing.
What is proportion?
In acrylic painting, this kind of paint stroke uses very little water and not much paint on the brush, so the texture of the brush and the surface shows through.
What is dry brush?
Van Gogh, Picasso, and Sargent all use value and color differently. If you describe how one of them uses brushstrokes, color, and value to create feeling in their work, you are talking about this personal aspect of an artist.
What is their style?