Art-making Materials
The most basic of art-making materials, you use this every day.
Pencil
This art style is non-representational, and is not meant to resemble any existing things in real life.
Abstract art
What is our classroom pet's name?
Sheldon
An enclosed area that has height, width, and depth (three dimensions).
Form
This project's purpose was to practice hand-building techniques and create a series of objects with consistent size and shape.
This type of medium requires water to use.
Watercolor paint
This Renaissance artist is well-known for his oil paintings (one mysterious lady in particular), frescoes, technical drawings, and theoretical inventions. He designed a prototype for a helicopter in the 1400s!
Leonardo da Vinci
What type of art is a paper dart?
Origami
The principle of design that shows how parts of an artwork should be arranged; symmetrical or asymmetrical.
Balance
This project involved taking photos to draw your face, but was made optional due to snow days.
Symbolic self portrait
This paint is heavy-bodied, which means it covers surfaces well and is not transparent. It is permanent and dries to a plastic texture.
Acrylic paint
This type of artwork involves observational drawing - observing an arrangement of objects and drawing them as accurately as possible.
Still life composition
How many kids does Ms. Sale have?
Three
A word that literally means "light-shadow" in Italian; this is a technique for creating the illusion of 3D objects using very light to very dark values.
Chiaroscuro
This project involved lots of layering and blending of colors to create an image with a realistic color scheme.
Impressionism with oil pastels
This material is naturally occurring and has been used for approximately 40,000 years.
Natural clay
Artists who work in this art style have to be careful not to plagiarize -- they change the context, meaning, or appearance of an artwork to create something "new."
Art appropriation
What is the actual name of the big black chair that no one can sit in?
Papasan chair
The term for the final step in the clay process, it occurs after the first kiln firing.
Glaze firing
This project allowed you to choose a number of things to draw, but you were required to make them appear 3D and as accurate to the real object as possible.
Still life composition
This medium, when used effectively, creates a texture similar to a painting. When not used effectively, it looks more like crayons.
Oil pastels
This style of art gives the impression of a subject -- from up close, it looks almost abstract and messy, but from a distance it looks realistic. This art style utilizes bold strokes of color.
Impressionism
Name all eight stages of clay.
Raw clay, powdered dry, clay slip, workable clay, leather hard, bone dry, bisqueware, glazeware
This is the word for the implied or actual lines in a perspective drawing; they are guidelines that connect to a vanishing point.
Orthogonal lines or perspective lines
This project started out with no plan or conscious control over the materials, but turned into symmetrical artwork.
Symmetrical Flow (splattered watercolor paint)