Quiz Drawing

Artists draw for many reasons, including:

This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.

If an artist wanted to create an area of darkness using the medium of silverpoint, he or she would use the technique of ____________.

Pencils have a range of values from very light to very dark. If you wanted a dark value, which of these pencil numbers would be the darkest?

Color pencil is much like graphite pencil, but the lead is made from pigment and ________.

Samples of this drawing medium have been dated back to 30,000 BCE.

Sticks of chalk, pastel, and crayon are all made by combining pigment with ________.

Artist's chalk is powdered calcium carbonate combined with this binder

Artists' crayon is made by mixing pigment with ________.

This red chalk was used by Renaissance artists, including Michelangelo in his Studies for the Libyan Sibyl.

Pastels are limited to black and white because color cannot be added to a pastel binder.

Erasers can be used by artists as drawing tools. In 1953 Robert Rauschenberg created a work by erasing a drawing by this famous Abstract Expressionist painter.

An artist who is using brush and ink will often control the value of the ink by ________.

The techniques of hatching and cross-hatching can be used only in dry media.

Before the invention of paper, drawings were done on __________________.

Which of the following fibers is not used to make paper?

This type of drawing involves the use of long continuous lines to capture the changing surface and outline of an object.