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Tempera paint uses egg yolk as a binding agent.

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Explore painting in KS3 Art and Design, from colour mixing to tone and texture. This quiz checks how artists use paint, tools, and techniques to create effects.

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Fascinating Fact:

Underpainting is an early layer that helps map out tones or shapes before adding colour. It can make later layers easier to control.

In KS3 Art and Design, painting skills grow through experimenting with media, practising control, and reviewing outcomes. You might explore colour palettes, build contrast with tone, and use different brush marks to suggest movement, depth, and form.

Key Terms

  • Opacity: How much light passes through paint, from see-through washes to solid coverage.
  • Tone: How light or dark a colour looks, used to create contrast and make objects look three-dimensional.
  • Brushstroke: A visible mark made by a brush, which can show texture, direction, and energy in a painting.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

What is underpainting in art?

Underpainting is a first layer of paint that helps plan the main shapes and values, so later colours sit in the right places and the final painting feels more balanced.

How do you mix lighter and darker tones with paint?

You can make a tone lighter by mixing in white or adding water for a thinner wash, and you can make it darker by adding a small amount of a darker colour or using less white.

How can I make a painting look textured?

You can create texture by using thicker paint, layering strokes, varying brush sizes, or using tools like sponges and palette knives to leave visible marks on the surface.

Try These Related Quizzes

1 .
What can be found at the Grotte Chauvet in France?
Some of the oldest paintings known to man
The first man-made paintbrush
The best example of a portrait
The first use of the colour blue
They are painted using red and black and show horses, rhinoceroses, lions, buffalos, mammoths and what are possibly human figures. They are around 32,000 years old
2 .
A deep blue paint was made by crushing the valuable gemstone lapis lazuli. As it was so expensive, it was usually only used for what?
Large expanses of sky
Seascapes
Painting the eyes of rich ladies
The robes of the Virgin Mary
If a picture included a woman wearing clothes painted with lapis blue, people understood it was probably Jesus' mother
3 .
Which of the following types of brushes might a professional artist be likely to leave on the shelf?
Sable
Ox hair
Hog bristle
Synthetic
Natural bristles are usually preferable - some are even made from squirrel, pony or mongoose hair!
4 .
Tempera paint is a pigment commonly mixed with which unusual binding agent?
Egg yolk
Whipped cream
Animal blood
Mayonnaise
Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the first centuries AD still exist
5 .
Although acrylic paints are water-based, what happens to them when they dry?
They become waterproof
Their colour fades
They change colour dramatically
They develop a rippled texture
Acrylic paint is fast drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion
6 .
Which oil was originally mixed with pigment to create oil paint?
Olive Oil
Vegetable Oil
Linseed Oil
Baby Oil
The oil gave the colour gloss and body and helped it to stay pliable while the artist worked
7 .
Which are the two usual ways for a canvas orientation to be described?
Seascape and photograph
Skyscraper and underground
Sideways and longways
Landscape and portrait
This also refers to what you might expect to see on the canvas when it hangs that way!
8 .
During the Renaissance, a particular type of painting was popular. It involved painting directly onto plaster which was wet. What was this called?
Freezer painting
Fresco painting
Fashion painting
Fisher painting
Buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh lime mortar or plaster
9 .
Painting has a lot to do with colour. What do we call the selection of colours an artist chooses to use?
His colour box
His colour wheel
His colour palette
His colour brush
Some artists use a very limited palette, others use colour to provoke a particular emotion
10 .
Which colour is the odd one out?
Prussian
Ultramarine
Magenta
Cobalt
Magenta is a pinky red, the others are all shades of blue
Author:  Angela Smith (Primary School Teacher & KS1 Quiz Writer)
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