Journeys Lesson 7 Vocabulary

Journeys Lesson 7

Vocabulary Words

Imagine

• Some artists paint real things. Other artists paint things that they imagine.

• Imagining is like creating a picture in your mind of something real or make-belief.

• You can imagine something in real life like a giraffe or something straight from your mind like a blue dragon that has ice powers.

Multiple Choice

Which best defines the word imagine?

• To look at something in front of you.

• To see a picture in your mind.

• To draw a picture of something.

Tools

• Artists use tools such as brushes, pencils, and markers to make art.

• We use tools to help finish a job.

• Tools are different for many jobs.

• While an artist uses pencils as their tool, a builder uses things like a hammer as their tool.

Multiple Choice

Which best defines the word tools?

• Things people use to draw.

• Things people use to build.

• Things people use to help them do a job.

Illustrate

• This artist has started to illustrate, or draw, pictures for a storybook.

• When you illustrate, you are drawing a picture.

• People can draw for fun, but for an artist to illustrate a story, they draw pictures to explain what is happening in a story.

Multiple Choice

Which best defines the word illustrate?

• To make pictures that show or explain something.

• To draw pictures for fun.

• To make a picture of what you see.

Scribbles

• Most children make messy scribbles before they learn to draw well.

• When you scribble, you are also doodling, usually drawing very quickly without caring how it looks.

Multiple Choice

Which best defines the word scribbles?

• To draw with a lot of details.

• Drawings or doodles, drawn in a quick and careless way.

• Quick drawings without much detail.

Sketches

• Painters often make sketches, or rough drawings, before they begin to paint.

• Sketching is kind of like doodling, but now you do care how it looks.

• So you are making a quick drawing, but not adding all the details yet.

Multiple Choice

Which best defines the word sketches?

• Drawings or doodles, drawn in a quick and careless way.

• To draw with a lot of details.

• Quick drawings without much detail.

Tracing

• Using see-through tracing paper lets you make an exact copy of something.

• When you trace something, you are basically making a copy of it.

• Artists would trace the lines of a picture on tracing paper to make trace the lines of a picture.

Multiple Choice

Which best defines the word tracing?

• To copy or trace lines of a picture.

• To look at a picture and copy it.

• To imagine a picture and copy it.

Research

• Sometimes artists needs to do research to find out what things look like.

• When you research, it is usually to find out or know more about a certain subject or problem.

• If an artist wanted to draw a cheetah, but didn't know how it looks like, then they would do research in the library or search online.

Multiple Choice

Which best defines the word research?

• To check information from the library about a subject.

• Careful study of a subject or problem.

• To search online to answer a problem.

Textures

• Paper can have different textures. It can look and feel smooth or rough

• When we talk about texture, we are talking about the surface of something.

• We can think about two questions about texture: How does it look like and how does it feel like?

• Textures can look and feel smooth, rough, soft, or hard.

Multiple Choice

Which best defines the word textures?

• The way the color of the surface makes you feel.

• The color of the surface.

• The ways that surfaces look and feel.