Week 10 Quiz Answers 1 1 .docx - 1. Your textbook lists...

1. Your textbook lists several functions of drawing. These include:
AN END IN ITSELF, TO THINK, TO PREPARE AND PLAN OTHER WORKS
2. The dry medium used in this drawing, Heads of the Virgin and Child by
Renaissance artist Raphael (page 196) is called SILVERPOINT . Because this
medium has a very light value, Raphael uses chiaroscuro (page 78) achieved
through hatching and cross-hatching (page 80-81) to create stronger dark
values that convey the impression of volume.
3. Which of the following is NOT a dry medium for drawing?
DRY MEDIA FOR DRAWING: SILVERPOINT, PENCIL, COLOR PENCIL,
CHARCOAL, CHALK, PASTEL, CRAYON
4. Painters during the Renaissance sometimes used drawings called CARTOONS
that were the same size as a planned mural. These drawing were perforated with
small pinholes along the lines so that the artist could hold them up to the wall and
blow charcoal dust through the perforations as an aid for painting. Rafael’s
School of Athens and, scholars have recently learned, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa were
created using this technique.
5. Pencils are a dry medium that use the mineral GRAPHITE, which is a naturally
occurring form of carbon that can be hard or soft. The softer the pencil, the
darker the mark.
6. Charcoal has a much darker value than graphite and it softer so it smudges
easily. It is made of burned wood, either as VINE CHARCOAL - a single piece of
wood or COMPRESSED CHARCOAL - powdered charcoal compressed with a
binder into a stick. I WAS ASKING FOR THE TWO TYPES OF CHARCOAL
HERE.
7. Pencils have different degrees of hardness. The softer the pencil, the DARKER
the mark.
8. The texture of paper varies from very smooth to very rough. The degree of
roughness is called TOOTH .
9. All of the following are characteristics of charcoal as a medium EXCEPT: