WorksheetsPainting Theory and Techniques
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
use _____ to thin acrylics, watercolours and gouache paint
linseed oil
grape seed oil
gel medium
water
when starting a painting always work from the
background to the foreground
midground to the back ground
foreground to the back ground
midground to the underpainting
to create value in a painting you add _____ to coloured paint to create a tint
black
grey
white
the complimentary colour
a monochromatic colour scheme would include a colour plus its
tints, browns and greys
tints, shades and tones
whites, colours and greys
whites, shades and darks
You can add texture to paintings with
sand
salt
sponges
all of the above
Artists like Rembrandt used _________ to develop emphasis in their paintings
stippling
articolo
chiaroscuro
value
Cubism was a movement in painting practiced by
Picasso
Banksy
Botticelli
Monet
a Canadian painter well known for stylized, colourful, and symbolic painting is
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Auguste Rodin
Cornelius Krieghoff
Norval Morrisseau
a Canadian painter well known for expressive brushwork and social/environmental critiques is
Emily Carr
Alex Colville
Mary Pratt
David Altmejd
brushes should be stored
flat
bristles up
bristles down
in the sink
