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Fun Trivia: A : Art Techniques

Special Sub-Topic: Arts and Crafts


A pointed tool, used for making small holes:

    awl.

Decorating with knotted string is:
    macrame.

Decorating with paper cutouts is:
    decoupage.

In candle making, the basic material is:
    paraffin wax.

A papier-mache figure is modeled on a skeleton called an:
    armature.

Wicker that is used in basketry is composed of:
    a vegetable fiber.

The devices used to comb and cleanse wool fleece, before it is spun into yarn are:
    cards.

A machine used for weaving cloth is a:
    loom.

Painting on cloth, with wax, on areas NOT to be dyed is:
    batik.

Windows made with small pieces of colored glass held together with lead are:
    stained glass.

To make -----, you need a molten mixture of soda, ash, metal oxides and sand.
    glass.

Folding paper into shapes such as animals is called:
    origami.

The special oven used in glazing clay pots is called a:
    kiln.

The term, 'Lost wax process', refers to?
    casting in metal.

When drawing, one suggests three-dimensional reality on paper by means of?
    perspective.

Oil paints are mixed on a ------.
    palette.

Etchings are prints made from a design cut in metal. This is done with:
    acid. Etchings can also be made by cutting a copper plate with a sharp knife called a burren.

Prints made by pressing paper with an inked stone is:
    lithography.

If you make an artistic arrangement of various materials and glue it to a surface, you have a ?
    collage. A collage can also be made from scraps of all the same material.

Which of these would be used in drawing a circle?
    compasses.


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