Painting Techniques
When painting, you should always use the correct ______ brush for the job.
What is size?
This is the way you should draw with a pencil before you know you have your lines right.
What is drawing light?
Artwork that has form
What is sculpture?
Do this to get the air bubbles out of your clay.
What is wedging? (Knocking the clay on the table)
Paint that requires water for use
What is watercolor?
When mixing colors with tempera paint, yellow, white, and red are the weakest colors. This means you need _______ of them than the other colors when mixing.
What is more?
An artist always looks at this when drawing from observation.
What is a reference?
In art, this refers to the way something feels or looks like it feels.
What is texture?
The large oven that fires the clay
What is the kiln?
Name two materials sculpture could be made out of.
What are clay, cardboard, paper, nylon, wire, wood, etc?
Painting in layers is an example of a solution to what problem that occurs with tempera paint.
What is the paint being transparent/see-through?
The brightest area of an object.
What is a highlight?
Art style that represents elements of popular culture
The name of the paint that we use on the clay
What is glaze?
Oil-based drawing material that can blend
What is oil pastel?
This is the way to mix a secondary paint color like green, orange, or purple.
What is mixing two primary colors?
When drawing an object, look at the basic _______ first.
What is shapes?
Steps for creating block or bubble letters
What are drawing the letter normally, outlining it, then erasing the letter inside?
The steps for attaching two pieces of clay together
What are score, slip, stick, and smooth?
An artist uses this to hold and mix paint.
What is a palette?
The method for creating brown out of only red, yellow, and blue.
What is creating a secondary color (green, orange, purple) and then adding its compliment (red, blue, yellow)?
Where a shadow falls on an object in relation to the light source
What is the opposite side of the object from the light source?
Refers to the lightness or darkness of a color
What is value?
You've finished forming your clay project! What steps must it go through before you can take it home?
Drawing material made of pressed-powder pigment
What is chalk pastel?