Art Appreciation
Study Sheet – Chapter 7, Drawing
Vocabulary:
Support – the physical material that provides the base for and sustains a two-dimensional work of art. Examples: paper, canvas, wood panels
Value – the lightness or darkness of tones or colors.
Wash – a thin, transparent layer of paint or ink.
Tooth – the roughness or grain of a paper
Metalpoint – artwork done with a metal point on a specially prepared paper
Quill pen – a pen made with a bird’s feather
Reed pen – a pen made with a hollow reed
Mixed Media
– works of art made with more than one medium.
Study Questions:
1. No one is BORN an artist with all the skills to draw well. Drawing is a learned
skill.
2. Drawing may be from memory, drawing an object from the imagination without the object in view. Or drawing may be from observation, drawing the object by actually looking at the object.
3. The purposes of drawing are: 1) a personal notation, sketch, or record of something seen, remembered or imagined, 2) a study for another, usually larger
and more complex work, 3) as an end in itself, a complete work of art.
4. Conte crayons are not really crayons, as we know them but made from earth clays and in modern times some synthetics.
5. Pastels are almost pure pigment, lightly bound together by a gum into chalk-like sticks.

6. Identity what media is primarily used in these artworks:
(They are in order here, but won’t be on a test.)
_____ Leonardo,
Study of a Young Woman’s face
_____ Tiepolo, The Holy Family
_____ Van Gogh, Cypresses
_____ Degas, The Dancers
_____ Kollwitz, Self-portrait
_____ Picasso, studies
_____ Raphael, studies for Alba Madonna a. silverpoint b. pen and ink c. ink with reed pen d. pastel e. charcoal f. pencil g. red chalk
7. Artists often made rough sketches in planning their work called studies.
8. Dry media are pencil, charcoal, conte crayon, chalk, and pastel.
Wet media are black and colored inks and felt and fiber-tipped pens.
9. The artist Rosalba Carriera made pastel a popular medium.
10. When an artist dilutes ink or watercolor to spread it evenly across the painting
surface, the technique is called wash.
11. Charcoal is made from charred wood and is one of the first drawing media ever used.