Painting Vocabulary - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
A stand or resting place for working on or displaying a painting. easel
73%
A three-paneled artwork. triptych
73%
A plain woven cloth of natural fibers usually stretched tightly over a wooden frame before being painted on. canvas
72%
A painting in which the subject matter is natural scenery. landscape
72%
The selection of colors the artist chooses to work with; or, the board on which a painter mixes their colors. palette
70%
Two hues directly opposite each other on a color wheel. complementary colors
67%
A soft paintbrush often made of sable, nylon, or a mixture of the two. watercolor brush
67%
An amorphous form of carbon used for drawing and for preliminary sketching on primed canvas for oil painting. charcoal
66%
The art of arranging the elements and/or color of an artwork in a manner that pleases the eye. composition
65%
The area of a painting that seems closest to the viewer. foreground
62%
Fusing two color planes together so no sharp divisions are apparent. blending
60%
A rich, reddish-brown pigment, produced from the ink sac of an octopus or cuttlefish, used in watercolor, drawing ink and oil paint. sepia
59%
Bold contrast between light and dark, highly developed by Renaissance painters. chiaroscuro
55%
A flexible and luminous type of paint in which the pigment is typically held together with a binder of linseed oil. oil paint
51%
Any coloring agent (made from natural or artificial substances) used with a binder to make paints. pigment
51%
A spray used to set charcoal, pencil or pastel images to the paper to protect against smearing, smudging or flaking. fixative
50%
The medium that holds pigment particles together in paint; for example, linseed oil or acrylic polymer. binder
48%
A detail, brushstroke, or area of color placed in a painting for emphasis. accent
46%
A type of paint, characterized by transparency, that uses water-soluble gum as the binder. watercolor
46%
A two-dimensional presentation that is so naturalistic that it looks three-dimensional. trompe l’œil
44%
A thin, transparent layer of paint. wash
39%
Thick paint applied to a surface in a heavy manner, creating thick, textured layers of paint with obvious brush strokes, and having the appearance and consistency of buttery paste. impasto
37%
Paint made by suspending pigment in a binder. Developed commercially in the 30s and 40s and perfected in the 50s through 70s. acrylic
36%
A hue with white added. tint
36%
A water-based paint that uses egg, egg yolk, glue or casein as a binder. tempera
33%
The rough edges of watercolor and drawing papers. deckle
32%
The pure state of any color or a pure pigment that has not had white or black added to it. hue
26%
A watercolor painting technique using white and opaque colors. gouache
22%
The purity or degree of a color’s saturation; its relative absence of white or gray. chroma
20%
A hue with gray added. tone
18%
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