Materials
What is the best eraser to use for drawing?
Kneaded eraser
What are the primary colours?
Red, Yellow, Blue
What movie did the young Canadian boy have a part in animating?
Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse
When drawing a caricature of a person you ...
Usually, distort facial features and body to head size.
Which Prime Ministers did we see depicted in political cartoons in class?
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Sir John A. MacDonald
Wilfred Laurier
What are the pencils we use made of?
Graphite
What are the secondary colours?
Orange, Purple, Green
What is the name of the Canadian Artist whose life and art we studied?
Annie Pootoogook
What 3 skills are most important for drawing?
Pressure control, blending/smoothness and sketching with your light source recognizable.
Traditionally, how many types of perspectives in art are there?
3
What does H and B mean when classifying graphite pencils?
H determines hardness of the pencil and B determines the blackness of the pencil as well as softness.
How do you make tertiary colours?
You mix a secondary colour with a primary colour.
The artist we studied mostly portrayed what type of images?
Family Rituals
1. What colour pencil technique do we use?
2. Does it matter if you lean your hand on your drawing/colouring?
1. We layer our colours on, starting lightly and building the colour to a greater intensity.
2. Yes, because you can smudge your work and the oils from your hand can be transferred on to the paper.
1. What is a vanishing point?
2. What are orthogonal lines?
1. The point along the horizon line where the orthogonal lines meet and everything appears to vanish into the horizon.
2. Lines that go to the vanishing point.
What makes sketchbook paper different from standard printer paper?
It is thicker and has a tooth to it and the other is smooth.
What is the difference between a tint and a shade?
A tint is created by adding white to a colour, a shade is created by adding black to a colour.
What are the building blocks of ART?
Line, shape, form, value, colour, texture, and space.
What is the best pencil for your preliminary sketch?
An H pencil.
What angle should both your eyes and your drawing surface be at?
Approximately 90 degrees
What is useful to use when drawing accurate perspective drawings?
A ruler!
1. What are complimentary colours?
2. What are analogous colours?
1. Colours that are opposite on the colour wheel.
2. Colours adjacent to each other on the colour wheel.
What are the elements of DESIGN?
Pattern, contrast, balance, emphasis, movement, unity, rhythm.
What are the techniques for drawing?
Line, hatching, stippling, circling, blending, cross- hatching, rendering
What is a horizon line?
The horizon is the line for which the sky meets the land or water below.