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Color Theory

100

The color made when you mix red and yellow.

Orange

200

This is made when you add white to a hue.

Tint

300

These colors are made when you combine two primary colors.

secondary colors

400

The color that is made when you mix two complementary colors together.

Brown or grey.

500

These colors are made when you mix a primary color with a secondary color.

Tertiary colors

Art Supplies

100

This wheel is used to make cylindrical forms in ceramics.

Pottery wheel

200

This artist's cutting tool is used to make sharp precise cuts in paper and has a replaceable blade.

X-acto knife

300

Used in Japanese brushwork art this ink is dark black and often comes in liquid and block form.

Sumi ink

400

This material is what is on the inside of a pencil that allows it to make a mark.

Graphite

500

This type of water based paint allows you to paint layers of translucent color. It is readily available and easy to clean up.

watercolor

Well Known Artists

100

This famous Pop artist is known for saying, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." 

Andy Warhol

200

Ms. Davis has mask that looks like this famous female artist that sits behind her in our meetings.

Frida Kahlo

300

We recently looked at the art of this Navajo artist who takes inspiration from Navajo narratives and imagery to use in his paintings.

Shonto Begay

400

We study this modern artist who creates "Sound Suits".

Nick Cave

500

This famous abstract expressionist painter is known for pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. 

Jackson Pollack

Art Movements

100

This artistic movement begun in 1907 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who developed a visual language whose geometric planes.

Cubism

200

 This 19th-century art movement, associated especially with French artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley, who attempted to accurately and objectively record visual ‘impressions’ by using small, thin, visible brushstrokes. 

Impressionism

300

A term that emerged in the 1960s to describe different types of art that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted.

Performance Art

400

This is a technique of painting developed by French painters Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac, it is characterized by works made of countless tiny dots of pure color applied in patterns to form an image.

Pointillism

500

This art movement emerged in the 1950s, composed of British and American artists who draw inspiration from ‘popular’ imagery and products from popular and commercial culture, as opposed to ‘elitist’ fine art.

Pop Art

They are an artist too?

100

One of two famous tennis superstar sisters. This sister is also likes to paint. Her line of painting called “Expressions” has gained some worldwide recognition. 

Serena Williams

200

This famous actor who starred in movies such as The Truman Show and Dumb and Dumber is also a painter.

Jim Carrey

300

This current "Fastest Man on Earth" is also a photographer and dancer.

Usain Bolt

400

This star of The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is also an accomplished painter.

Johnny Depp

500

Also known as Rocky Balboa, this famous actor has created over 400 paintings.

Sylvester Stallone