This is the term for the group of colors that includes red, yellow, and blue.
What are "primary" colors?
100
This is the term for a picture that an artist makes of himself or herself.
What is a "self-portrait"?
100
"Wedging" the clay means to do this.
What is pounding the clay against the table?
100
The artist Henri Matisse was known for his cut paper scenes of figures dancing or abstract shapes. One example was his artwork "Icarus" (based on the myth of flying too close to the sun and falling out of the sky). This is the art project we worked on in the style of Matisse.
What is our cut-paper Christmas cards?
100
This is the number of sides of our cut-paper snowflakes (and real snowflakes).
What is six?
200
These are the three "secondary" colors.
What are green, purple, and orange?
200
The word "collage" refers to this type of art.
What is art made by cutting different pieces of paper and gluing them together into one artwork?
200
To create a "slab" of clay, like a flat tile, this is a useful tool for getting an even thickness.
What is a rolling pin?
(or, a board with rulers attached)
200
This is one painting we looked at by the artist Gustav Klimt, who inspired one of our projects this year.
What is "Baby" (the quilt painting), the "Tree of Life", or "The Kiss"?
200
This is the name for the large oven in which we fire our clay pieces to make them hard "bisque" pieces.
What is a kiln?
300
This is the color you get from mixing red and yellow.
What is orange?
300
This type of art involves a motion of "over, under, over, under, over, under."
What is weaving?
300
Before attaching one piece of clay to another, you must do two actions. Name or describe BOTH.
What are "scoring" the clay (carving criss cross lines) and adding "slip" (wet mud)?
300
This is one characteristic of the artwork of Gustav Klimt (something he often did in his paintings).
What is (name one): shapes inside of shapes, used swirls, added gold metallic paint, used lots of pattern and color?
300
This is the word for the frame on which weaving is done (in our case, the paper plate became this).
What is a "loom"?
400
This is the color you would get by mixing all three primary colors together.
What is brown or grayish-brown?
400
When we made our paper snowflakes, we did these two actions to the paper to create designs.
What are folding and cutting?
400
This is the purpose of wedging the clay.
What is to remove any air trapped inside, so it won't explode when heated.
400
The artist Wayne Thiebaud (pronounced Tee-bow) created images of this type of subject.
What is images of food, candy, ice cream, etc.?
400
This is the special color paint Gustav Klimt often added into his paintings.
What is gold?
500
When using watercolor paint in trays that contain only red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, and black, THIS is the way to create pink.
What is to add lots of water to the red?
500
This is the definition of "relief sculpture."
What is a sculpture that is flat on one side, like a wall tile?
500
This is one of the rules about applying glaze.
What is (name one): Use three coats of glaze, or don't paint the bottom?
500
This is one characteristic seen in many different paintings by Wayne Thiebaud (pronounced Tee-bow)--something he did often in his paintings.
What is (name one): used thick paint like icing, used repetition (repeating shapes or objects), colorful shadows, etc.?
500
This is the word for the strings that are strung into place for weaving, which do not move (in our round weaving, they looked like spokes on a wheel).