Art and Artists
Elements and Principles
Media
Techniques
Mix Master!
100
He was a sculptor and painter and was famous for the statue of David, painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the Pieta. 
Who was Michelangelo?
100

Overlapping, size changes, placing objects higher on the picture are all ways to create this.

What is Depth (Space)?

100

It comes in a powder form and when mixed with water, it cures to a hard surface.

What is plaster?

100
The technique used to create values (tints and shades) in a drawing or painting?
What is shading?
100

The two colors that you mix to make green.

What are blue and yellow?


200

Spanish painter who invented Cubism, had a blue period and a rose period and painted "Guernica," about the bombing of a small town. 

Who was Picasso?

200

The three characteristics of color.

Hue, Value and Intensity

200

The media that used sticks of oil and pigment. 

What is Oil pastel?

200

The basket making technique where a flexible material is wrapped around a core. 

What is coiling?

200

The color you mix to make a color lighter?

What is white?


300

They painted animals and their names sound the same. 

Who was Dean Russo and Henri Rousseau?


300

Dulling or muting a color by mixing it's compliment or a grey. 

What is toning?

300

A sculpture that is only meant to be viewed from the front. (The back is usually flat)

What is a relief?

300

To make a sculpture by using a mold and pouring a liquid that hardens and can be removed. 

What is casting?

300

The colors that make brown?


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What are Primary colors? what is red, blue and yellow?

What are complimentary colors? (y&p, b&o, g&o) 

What are all the colors on the color wheel?

400

He was a Dutch painter who used heavy brushstrokes of swirling lines. He only sold one painting while he was alive and cut off his own ear after an argument with a fellow artist. "Starry Night" is one of his most popular works.

Who was Vincent Van Gogh?

400

What colors do you mix to make brown?

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What are Primary colors? what is red, blue and yellow?

What are complimentary colors? (y&p, b&o, g&o) 

What are all the colors on the color wheel?

400

The type of paint that is used to seal porous surfaces and dries to a plastic shell. 

What is acrylic?


400

Using a flexible, moldable material to shape a sculpture.

What is modeling?


400

The colors that make grey.

White and black

500

He painted landscapes including a metaphorical painting called "The Oxbow" depicting the wild west with a blasted tree and stormy sky while the east was pictured as civilized.

Who was Thomas Cole?

500
Creating a sense of depth though the use of lighter/bluer hues to show the air, smog, and other particles that might obscure a view. 

What is atmospheric perspective?


500

The part of paint, chalk or other colored medium that give it the color.  It often comes in powdered form.

What is pigment?


500

The subtractive method of removing material from a solid block (typically stone, wood or clay) to create a sculpture.

What is carving?

500

The color you add to tone down the intensity of another color?

What is it's compliment?