Painting Techniques
The terms used to describe thick painted texture?
Impasto
He died a very non rock'n'roll death and painted Marilyn Monroe what seemed like a million times?
Andy Warhol
Describe the cockle of a support?
Warping of the support if not properly prepared
Name 4 types of paint?
Oil
Acrylic
Watercolour
Gouache
Is it a good idea to mix acrylic with water?
No not really it reduces the vibrancy of your paint colour and can also cause the paint to dry more quickly and possibly flake in future
Technique used when you want the paint to run in together?
Wet in Wet
A violent drunk, he threw paint at his canvases and always painted with a lit cigarette protruding from his mouth?
Jackson Pollock
Which animal may come to harm when watercolour painting?
Squirrel
How many paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell during his lifetime?
1
True or false you can paint with acrylic on metal?
Yes you can but as always it should be properly prepared first to create a tooth for the paint to adhere to
When you scratch or scrape into the paint?
Sgraffito
He thinks his paintings are flat sculptures?
Michael Craig Martin
What does dry brushing mean?
A brush with very little paint if any at all, that is swept over the painting to leave intentional brush marks.
What element was removed from Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper by careless workers?
In 1652, while installing a doorway in the wall that holds The Last Supper, builders cut into the bottom-center of the mural, lopping off Jesus' feet.
I don't have any watercolour paper but I want to paint with watercolours, what should I do?
Stretch your paper in water first and gum tape it to a flat board or surface
How do you create a glaze?
Layer the paint, helps to use a medium to reduce the opacity of the upper layer of paint
Known for his huge highly naturalistic paintings of black people in heroic poses. He messed with old masters?
Kehinde Wiley
Name a compositional device?
Leading Lines
View Point
Rule of Odds
Rule of Thirds
True or false, you can only paint using brushes when using watercolour?
False
How should you prepare a canvas board prior to using acrylic paint on it?
Created using a dry brush and circular motion?
Scumble
She painted a whole gallery space in watercolour?
Katharina Grosse
What is Pigmentumphobia?
The fear of Paint
What animal can't stick out it's tongue?
Crocodile
If combining oil paint and acrylic paint in which order should you apply them, and why?
Acrylic always as the under layer, oil on top.
Otherwise you run the risk of combustion