Colours
Year 7 Art
Famous Art
Painting
Fun Random Facts
100

The colour made when you mix red and yellow.

orange

100

A artwork genre that usually shows these kinds of objects: bottles, cans, food

Still Life

100

The artist who painted the Mona Lisa.

Leonardo da Vinci

100

This paint type is water-based and dries quickly, often used in schools.

Acrylic

100

Bananas are technically this type of food, not a fruit.

Berry

200

These three colours can’t be made by mixing other colours.

the primary colours

200

The line halfway down a face is where this feature usually sits.

Eyes

200

Vincent van Gogh painted a famous work called Starry ____

Night

200

This tool is used to hold our paint and to mix paint colours together on a flat surface

Palette

200

True or False: The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows

True

300

The opposite of blue on the colour wheel.

orange

300

This part of the face is usually drawn halfway between the eyes and the chin.

Nose

300

This American artist made colourful “pop art” paintings of soup cans

Andy Warhol

300

Painters sometimes use this first layer to block in the main shapes and colours.

underpainting

300

The world’s largest art museum, the Louvre, is in this city.

Paris

400

A colour scheme using only one colour and its lighter or darker versions.

monochromatic

400

This French word means arranging objects to look beautiful in a still life - Miss uses it to explain the layout

Composition

400

This street artist is known for stencils on walls and never shows his real identity.

Banksy

400

Mixing red and blue paint gives you this colour.

Purple

400

The paint colour “mummy brown” was once made by grinding up this unusual material.

Egyptian mummies

500

Another name for colours that are side by side on the colour wheel.

analogous colours

500

Artists use these soft pencils for darker shading give an example

6B or 4B

500

This Spanish artist painted distorted faces and is known as a founder of Cubism.

Pablo Picasso

500

This wooden or metal stand is used by artists to hold their canvas while painting.

Easel

500

This is the only continent without native ants.

Antarctica