Dare to Draw
This is a quick drawing of an object or situation that is usually done as a preparation for a more detailed work of art.
Sketch
This type of paint, usually used on white paper, is applied with water to give it a transparent effect.
Watercolor Paints
This artist was mentally unstable and cut off part of his ear after an argument with fellow artist Gauguin.
Vincent van Gogh
These colors are red, blue and yellow and cannot be reproduced by mixing any other color together.
Primary colors
This is an artistic technique that involves folding paper into shapes that can represent plants, animals, or other objects.
Origami
Artists use these pieces of burned wood for drawing.
Charcoal
This type of hair would be found on a watercolor brush.
natural or animal hairs
This Norwegian artist heard the "scream of Nature" which prompted his most famous painting entitled The Scream.
Edvard Munch
These are colors to which white has been added to make the color soft and lighter. The term "pastel" is sometimes used as a synonym for this term.
Tints
This form of art is made from paper pulp or shredded papers that is mixed with water and another solution such as paste, glue, or starch.
Papier-mache
This type of drawing is created to accompany a story, advertisement, or other written text.
Illustration
This painting technique is done on damp plaster or by wetting dry plaster before painting on it.
Fresco
She began to paint while lying flat on her back after a terrible bus accident in Mexico City.
Frida Kahlo
This term describes any color that is calm or soothing in nature. They are not overpowering and tend to recede in space. Examples of these colors include green, blue and violet.
Cool colors
This group of shapes fit together to cover a surface without overlapping or gaps. Commonly, these shapes are types of repeating geometric patterns such as translations, rotations, or reflections.
Tessellation
To make by small short touches (as of paint or ink) that together produce an even or softly graded shadow.
Stippling
This work of art is most often found on the walls (exterior or interior) or ceiling of a public building.
Mural
In WWI this American was stationed with the Red Cross in France. There he drove an ambulance he had covered completely with cartoons instead of camouflage paint.
Walt Disney
These are colors such as red and green that are directly opposite each other on the color wheel.
Complementary colors
This is a type of artwork that involves a creative grouping of different textures, objects, and materials that are glued or attached to a backing.
Collage
This artist drew illusions and impossible structures as seen in his most famous work, Ascending and Descending.
M. C. Escher
Besides being a painter, this Renaissance genius was also an inventor, mathematician, scientists, architect, and engineer.
Leonardo da Vinci
Grandma Moses
A color scheme based on only one, single color tint. It uses only variations of a single hue, made by altering the saturation and brightness of the base color. Black and white colors are always added to lighten and darken the color.
Monochromatic
This type of artwork is a movable structure that is usually suspended from the ceiling. This allows it to move freely.