Watercolor things
Artists of the day (dead)
Art grit
vocab words
Artist of the day (living)
100
True or false: with watercolor, you can always paint darker layers into any painting, but you can't really make a dark area get lighter.
True.
100
This famous Italian painted the ceiling of the Sistene chapel, as well as made a 16 foot tall Goliath slayer out of a single piece of marble over 500 years ago.
Michelangelo
100
Picasso famously said, "Every _______ is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up."
child
100
When light lights meet dark darks
Contrast
100
This Pakistani-born artist does detailed miniature paintings with culturally subversive and critically aware images.
Shazia Sikander
200
Water/color is essentially made of combining H20 with this word, meaning the physical color used in making paintings.
pigment
200
Local Utah artist taught painting at BYU for 20 years, as well as made a significant amount of his own illustrations style of fantasy and imagination.
James Christensen
200
To really develop your own unique artistic voice or style, or become a master at anything, it's going to take at least this long to work at it, according to Malcolm Gladwell.
10,000 hours
200
The visible components and arrangements that create a layout of a space (in visual arts, this space is often a rectangle)
composition
200
This artist works like a gardener to her drawings, setting up a few guiding lines and marks, but allowing the drawing to guide itself in geometric patterns on ledger book papers.
Louise Despont
300
Taping the edges of your paper down before you begin painting will not only help it lay flat when done, but it gives a nice clean what?
edge/border
300
This artist would sit quietly and wait for "an inspiration" before painting her (mostly) square, abstract, light, minimal works.
Agnes Martin
300
This author gives advice that the reason to make art is to make your soul grow. He also gives the assignment to go write a poem and then never tell anyone about it.
Kurt Vonnegut
300
Derived from a French military term meaning "before the guard", in the worlds of art and fashion, this term often refers to those doing things ahead of their time.
Avant garde
300
This painter chooses to paint people (often strangers) as a way to address difficult issues such as gender, class, and social norms.
Jordan Casteel
400
This is the name of a technique in watercolor where you first get an area of the paper wet with a layer of clean water, then adding in a color that fills up the area with a clean, smooth, brushless effect.
Wash.
400
This American artist flipped the modernist paradigm on its head, using industrial mass-production methods to make images recognizable to anyone who might go grocery shopping for soup cans or might see a celebrity magazine, especially in the 1960s.
Andy Warhol
400
Grayson Perry says he has these two forces at work within him (like an updated, more specific way to name his "left" and "right" brain)
The hobbit and the punk
400
The word used by illustrators and painters looking to faithfully replicate their subjects, specifically referring to the relationship between the size or shape of different parts of an image. Make sure you draw it in _____________.
Proportion
400
This Chinese artist makes large (fast) paintings of strangers from all over the world. He prefers to paint in person and on site, rather than alone in his studio.
Liu Xiaodong
500
It is recommended to always have 3-4 of these around while working with watercolor- to help you soak up and subtract, as well as cleanse brushes between colors. These will be one of your best friends as you're painting with watercolor.
paper towels
500
This Mexican artist painted symbolic, dream-like self portriats that gained her a lot of attention, even though she was married to a more famous muralist.
Frida Kahlo
500
Though this artist died having only sold one painting while he was alive, his work proved to be enormously important in guiding the future of painting through the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century. Even down one ear lobe.
Vincent Van Gogh
500
When two or more things are brought together that normally don't go together. By doing this, it often can activate a third thing.
Juxtaposition
500
This artist is at the nexus of making works that are funny, stupid, AND impressive. He stared at a piece of paper for 1,000 hours.
Tom Friedman