Art History
This is the painter of the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
These fibers go up and down in a weaving.
What is warp?
What is taping the borders?
These are the tools and materials used to create art
What are media (mediums)?
This is the type of writing where letters are connected, rather than written individually
What is cursive writing?
This is the country where wool-producing animals live which inspired our alpacas weaving project.
What is Peru?
These fibers go side to side in a weaving
What is weft?
This watercolor technique is done by adding water to the paper first, dipping the brush in paint, and then adding the paint to the water.
What is the wet-on-wet method?
This type of art is created by cutting out paper (like pictures or magazine clippings) and pasting it with other mediums to create a picture
What is a collage?
This material, important for hand-lettering, was created in China about 2000 years ago
What is paper?
This is the country where watercolor paintings were first discovered
What is France?
What is a loom?
This watercolor technique is performed by taking a paper towel and soaking up excess water from the watercolor paper, removing some of the paint.
What is the lifting method?
This is the way that elements (like the subject and background) are arranged in an artwork
This is the country where the Huichol people live, and create their Ojos de Dios weavings, beaded sculpture, and paintings.
What is Mexico?
This wooden tool is attached to the string, and allows you to more easily guide the weft fibers through the warp fibers.
What is a shuttle?
This material can be added to a watercolor painting in order to repel water, create a dotted pattern
What is salt?
This is the type of craft where string or thread is looped around to create stitches. It can be done simply with your hands, or with complex patterns using needles.
What is knitting?
This word means "beautiful writing", and refers to a more complex form of writing in which the letters are created to look pretty, rather than being easily readable.
What is calligraphy?
This is the name of the ancient city in the Incan empire where only alpacas live today
What is Macchu Picchu?
These are the types of animals that you can harvest wool from to create woven fibers.
What are alpacas, llamas, and sheep?
What is white?
This type of art was created by the Huichol people in Mexico, and included bright colors and animals.
What is yarn painting?
These include undercurve, slide to the right, slant, downcurve, overcurve, and checkstroke
What are the cursive handwriting strokes?