Art Vocabulary
Colors
Various Vocab
Printmaking
Printmaking cont.
100
Making visual reminders of God's creation.
What is Art
100
The colors from which every other color is made.
What are primary colors (Red, Yellow, Blue)
100
The method of attaching two pieces of clay together.
What is scoring and slipping
100
A printing process where raised areas are inked and recessed (carved down) areas remain ink free.
What is Relief Printing
100
A hand roller used in printmaking to spread ink onto a plate.
What is a brayer
200
The real texture of how something truly feels (tactile)
What is Actual Texture
200
The colors created by mixing two primary colors together.
What are secondary colors (Orange, Green, Violet)
200
An art movement that started in the 1950's and is based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic response to traditional fine art values
What is Pop Art (short for "Popular Art")
200
A material commonly used as flooring. It can also be used as a printing template by carving into it.
What is Linoleum
200
Inexpensive paper typically used for printing newspapers. Artists use this for practicing.
What is newsprint
300
How something looks like it would feel (illusion)
What is Implied Texture
300
Red + Yellow
What is Orange
300
A tool that hooks on a table to prevent a template from slipping during carving.
What is a Bench hook
300
A practice or test print to check the progress of the image and how it is printing.
What is a artist's proof (AP)
400
A way of drawing objects on a flat piece of paper so that they look three-dimensional and realistic. Two vanishing points are used.
What is two- point perspective.
400
Yellow + Blue
What is Green
400
Sharp tools used to carve into linoleum or wood. They are used for creating printing templates
What are u/v gouges
400
A tray or board in which an artist lays and mixes colors on.
What is a palette.
500
Blue + Red
What is Violet
500
A liquid or paste that contains dye. It is applied to a surface to produce an image, text or design.
What is Ink
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