Quiz 11 Painting Media

__________________is the oldest painting media and one of the most difficult to master.

• Tempera

• Fresco

• Oil

• Watercolor

_________ is a medium that came to dominate the history of European art.

• Fresco

• Tempera

• Oil

• Acrylic

_______ were used as early as ancient Egypt.

(More than one answer)

• Tempera

• Fresco

• Watercolor

• Acrylic

Facts about the Sistine Chapel

• took Leonardo da Vinci 4 years and 5 months

• 4 large and 5 smaller Old Testament scenes which are located in the Vatican

• the artist had to climb 6 to 7 levels of scaffolding every day, once he fell and broke his arm

• over 400 figures on the ceiling

  and is the most well know oil painting in the Western World

This was created using ________

• tempera

• fresco

• oil

• watercolor

A dry powder that supplies the coloring agent for paint, crayons, chalk and ink.

• proof

• binder

• pigment

• plaster

A material substance that holds pigment materials together to form a cohesive whole. Gives paint its properties.

• coatings

• pigment

• media

• bonding agent

Watercolor

• watercolor was best used as a sketching media and still is

• uses gum arabic, a water soluble adhesive, can be used on any type of paper

• is mostly opaque, was used as early as Prehistory

• became a major painting medium due to an American Artist, Winslow Homer

_______________used egg yolk as the binding agent to stick the colored pigment to wooden panels

• Tempera

• Fresco

• Oil

• Watercolor

1. ______surface first covered with a coat of rough plaster, pigment brushed on while pigment is wet, makes a permanent bond with lime in plaster, no changes can be made once it is dry

• Tempera

• Fresco

• Watercolor

• Plaster Painting