Acrylic Painting Vocabulary

This medium will increase the texture of the paint and make your paint go further.Good for using as a glazing medium.

• Gel Medium

• Glaze Medium

• Gloss Medium

• Acrylic Medium

Because acrylic paint is already naturally glossy, this medium is handy when a more subtle, non-reflective finish is needed. You can also mix gloss medium and this medium together in equal parts to achieve a kind of semi-gloss.

• pour medium

• matte medium

• gloss medium

• semi-gloss medium

In painting, anything that you mix in with the paint to change it's consistency is called a:

• Medium

• Materials

• Supplies

• Additive

A technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface in very thick layers, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, this technique provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas. Modeling paste helps with this technique.

• sgraffito

• impasto

• glazing

• underpainting

A white, thick paste that will thicken your acrylic paint or build up texture on the canvas before applying paint. It can be used for impasto painting effects.

• modeling medium

• paste medium

• modeling gel

• modeling paste

A substance used to slow the drying time of paints, giving more time for blending or layering highlights.

• retarder

• slow dry

• dry medium

• wet paint medium

When you are first establishing the basics of a painting, you _____________ _______the general colours or tones – the paint is often watery at this stage so you can easily paint on top of it.

• wet-on-wet

• under tone

• paint in

• block in

What tool would an artist use to scrape up a bit of paint and apply like butter on bread?

• partially mix colors

• palette knife

• color mixing

• layering

If a painter would like to make a hue lighter they would use white to:

• tint

• shade

• tone

• none of these are correct

This painter is applying a "white ground" to the raw canvas before they apply paint. This white ground is known as gesso.

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