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Artists draw for many reasons, including: |
to define their ideas, to plan for larger projects, to resolve design issues in preparatory sketches, and to record their visual observations |
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When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall. |
a cartoon |
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Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest? |
9B |
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When creating his silverpoint drawing Heads of the Virgin and Child, Raphael employed ________, a process in which the artist uses closely arranged parallel lines to create value. |
hatching |
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Artists’ chalk is powdered calcium carbonate combined with this binder. |
gum arabic (art by Michelangelo using red chalk) |
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The French Impressionist Edgar Degas used this dry drawing medium when he created The Tub in 1886. |
pastel |
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The French artist Georges Seurat created a study for his huge painting La Grande Jatte using this waxy medium. |
Conté crayon |
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Erasers can be used by artists as drawing tools. In 1953 Robert Rauschenberg created a work by erasing a drawing by this famous Abstract Expressionist painter. |
Willem de Kooning |
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East Asian artists have traditionally applied ink using a ________. |
brush |
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In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun, who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water? |
China |
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In addition to its fiber content and weight, paper is also classified by its surface texture. What is the type of paper that is created on a screen with a grid-like structure? |
wove |
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Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder. |
pigment |
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The binding agent in encaustic painting is ________. |
beeswax |
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The binding agent for tempera paint is ________. |
egg |
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This twentieth-century American painter chose tempera to describe his neighbor’s "extraordinary conquest of life" in the work Christina’s World. |
Andrew Wyeth |
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This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place. |
fresco |
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There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means dry fresco, and this kind, which means good fresco. |
buon |
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Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method. |
Michelangelo |
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The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint. |
Jan van Eyck |
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Californian artist Joan Brown used this painting technique, created by applying thick layers of paint to a surface. |
impasto |
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This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder. |
acrylic |
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This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder (the French version uses honey.) |
watercolor |
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This painting medium is opaque, applied to a paper surface, and uses a gum arabic binder. |
gouache |
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This German artist’s naturalistic depiction A Young Hare was created using a combination of watercolor and gouache highlighting. |
Albrecht Dürer |
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