Colours
Elements of art
Famous Artists
Art Techniques
Mixed Bag
100

Name the primary colours

Red, yellow, blue

100

This element can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curved, or wiggly.  My friend Larry really likes this element

Line

100

Claude Monet spent 30 years painting this flower in his garden.  What was the flower called?

Water lily

100

When we used watercolour paint over oil pastels, the oil pastels peeked through.  This technique is called RESIST.  Why did the oil pastels resist the watercolour paint?

The oil in the pastels won't mix with the water in the paint
100

In the winter we used chalk pastels to create the northern lights.  What are two colours that the northern lights can be?

green, pink, red, blue, purple

200

Name the secondary colours

Orange, green, purple

200

This element refers to how something feels, or how it LOOKS like it might feel.  We went outside to study this element

Texture

200

Paul Klee is famous for using beautiful colours in this paintings.  We drew a picture based on one of his famous paintings.  It was called "Cat and _____"

Bird

200

An art piece that mixes rocks, shells, ceramic, glass, and other items to make a picture is called a...?

Mosaic

200

What happens to a colour when you add black?

It gets darker (shade)

300

What colour do you get if you mix blue and yellow?

Green

300

Triangles, circles, and bananas (!) are examples of this element.  Circles can be organic or inorganic.  The ones we painted were organic.  What is this element?

Shape

300

Near the beginning of the year we painted a shape inspired by the painter Wassily Kandinsky.  What shape did we paint? HINT: We painted a big shape then a smaller one inside, then a smaller one inside that!

Circles

300

What can we add to watercolour paint to make our colour lighter? 

Water

300

Why did we have to push so hard when we made our plates for printmaking?

The ink goes where the design isn't, so for the design to show up, you need to make deep grooves so the ink stays off the design

400

Name a warm colour

red, orange, yellow

400

This element can be primary, secondary, even tertiary!  We made playdoh rainbows when we learned about this element of art.

Colour

400

What country was Claude Monet from?

France

400

When we weave, the string moves across the loom in what pattern? Hint: O______ and U______

Over and Under

400

Name a cool colour

green, blue, purple
500

What do we call the colours that sit beside each other on the colour wheel?

Analogous colours

500

Space is the element that tells us where things are.  What is one way to show in a picture that an object is closer to us than another object? (remember the trees we drew when we painted mountain landscapes)

bottom of the page, bigger, more detail, brighter colours

500

How much money did Claude Monet's Haystack painting sell for in 2019?

$110 000 000 (110 million dollars!)

500

What is the roller called in printmaking?

A brayer

500

What word describes why oil pastels and watercolour paint won't mix? Oil pastels are hydro______

Hydrophobic