Painting Theory and Techniques

It is best to prepare a surface for painting with

• canvas

• watercolors

• gesso

• acrylic paint

acrylics dry _______

• shiny

• lighter

• darker

• heavier

always wash your brushes with _____

• cool water

• varathane

• hot water

• detergent

paints are made of ________ and a medium

• egg white

• oils

• pigments

• chalk

using this technique you apply paint in short thick strokes and can even blend your colours on the canvas

• score

• daub

• wash

• dry brush

this tool can be used to scrape paint onto/across a surface

• palette knife

• wedge

• butter knife

• smudge stick

watercolour paints dry quickly and can be _________

• re-wet with more paint

• painted over

• permanent

• re-wet with water

Watercolour paintings are usually softer in appearance than acrylics and oils and appear more ______________

• opaque

• stippled

• transparent

• textured

when using the wet into wet painting technique it causes this effect

• hard edge

• bleeding

• stippling

• impasto

gouache is very similar to watercolour paint except it is

• opaque

• thicker

• water resistant

• permanent