Color Theory
Design
Technique & Materials
Art History
General Trivia
100

These colors include yellow, red, and blue, and cannot be mixed from other colors

What are the primary colors?

100

This term is used to describe the arrangement and layout of visual elements in an image, creating visual harmony between them.

What is composition?

100

These are the two most common types of paintbrushes, and are named after the shape of their hairs

What are flat brushes and round brushes?

100

This renaissance polymath/artist was known for his mastery of atmospheric perspective, human proportion, and mechanical engineering.  His most famous painting is kept at the Louvre in Paris, France, where it was once stolen in 1911 by a museum custodian.

Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?

100

This animated character was featured in the world's first ever sound-synchronized cartoon, Steamboat Willie, in 1928.

Who is Mickey Mouse?

200

These colors include orange, green, and violet, and can be created by mixing two primary colors

What are the secondary colors?

200

This design term refers to a line that marks the edges of a given form

What is contour?
200

This kind of paint is almost pure pigment, and is used by adding water with a brush, creating a suspension that can be painted with.

What are watercolors?

200

Historically, many white paints contained this ingredient as a pigment, making them highly toxic and unhealthy to use.

What is lead?

200

The state of Indiana is known for its production of this long-lasting and aesthetically appealing material, sought after by sculptors and architects alike.

What is limestone?

300

This color-palette consists of two contrasting colors that sit at opposite ends of the color wheel from one another.

What is a complementary color palette?

300

This type of pattern uses interlocking geometric forms to cover an area completely, without any gaps or overlaps

What is tesselation?

300

This is the most important thing a person can do to keep their brushes maintained and usable between painting sessions.

What is washing and rinsing your brushes?

300

This room's ceiling, constructed at the Vatican in the 15th century, features some of the most widely known paintings from renaissance painter and sculptor Michelangelo.

What is the Sistine Chapel

300

This element has the chemical symbol "Na" on the periodic table

What is sodium?

400

This color palette consists of three main colors, two of which neighbor the complement (opposite) of the third color on the color wheel

What is a split-complementary color palette?

400

This type of design uses elements which branch out from or repeat around a central point, forming a circular image which is symmetrical when viewed from any angle

What is radial design?

400

This artistic medium uses plastic polymers to create a quick-drying, water-soluble paint.

What is acrylic paint?

400

Artists like Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet, could be described as members of this 19th century French painting movement, characterized by its visible brushstrokes, its focus on depicting light, and its ordinary subject matter.

What was the impressionist movement?

400

This NFL team won the first ever super bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967.

Who are the Green Bay Packers?

500

This color palette consists of several colors, all neighboring one another on one side of the color wheel.

What is an analogous color palette?

500

This aspect of design refers to areas of light and dark in an image, as well as the contrast between them

What is value?

500

The technical term for the piece of metal which holds the bristles together on the brush

What is a ferrule?

500

Classical Roman columns are capped with a decorative element called a capital, which are generally designed in one of these three named styles, or "orders".

What are Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian?

500

In Tolkien's epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, this character is the only being besides Tom Bombadil to ever voluntarily give up possession of the One Ring to another.

Who is Samwise Gamgee?