Acrylic Painting Materials and Techniques Quiz

Has coarse fibers /great for working in oils or acrylics to push thick paint around and leave visible strokes.

Bristle Brush

Soft fibers used with thin or watery paints give the ability to change the shape of the stroke and leave little or no brushstrokes

Hair Brush

Is great for creating dabs, dots and very small, precise strokes.

Round Brush

Wide, and straight along the top it creates a wide stroke when pulled in one direction, and a narrow stroke when pulled along their edge.

Flat Brush

The blade has a pointed tip, lowered or "cranked" like a trowel and can be shaped like a triangle, rectangle or a diamond.

Painting Knife

A long flexible, blade with a rounded tip used to mix your colors.

Palette Knife.

A liquid used to add transparency and give a non-shiny characteristic to the paint surface

.Matte Medium

A paste-like consistency used to add shininess and transparency to the paint while maintaining an impasto viscosity.

Gloss Gel Medium

Paint that has a paste like consistency and holds defined brush strokes.

Impasto.

Creating a painting all in one sitting, usually a wet in wet technique.

Alla Prima

A thin application of paint, similar to a glaze, but using semi-opaque and opaque pigments to alter the effect of the underlying paint. Usually applied with quite a dry brush effect.

Scumble

scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color, typically done in a wet paint layer to reveal a dry layer below.

Sgraffito

a thin watery consistency of paint diluted just with water. It is most commonly used in the first blocking in stages of the painting, to gain an overall sense of the colour scheme.

Wash

the liquid part of the paint, in which the dry pigment is dispersed.

Vehicle

is anything you mix in with the paint to change its consistency.

Medium

Natural or synthetic materials are finely ground and mixed with a liquid vehicle into a paste to make paint. gives different properties (opacity, durability, light-fastness) to the paint.

Pigment

is where the brush will make contact with the surface you are painting

Tip/Toe

It is the fattest part of the head and serves as a reservoir for paint.

Belly

Where the fibers of a brush enter the ferrule

Heel

The metal part of the brush that attaches the glued bristles to the handle.

Ferrule