Painting media: fill in the blanks · Grade 12

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• lapis lazuli ____ encaustic · paper ____ oil paint ____ fresco · impasto tempera · acrylic
• 1 Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling in ____.
• 2 paints became widely available to artists in the mid-twentieth century.
• 3 Vincent van Gogh often used thick · brushstrokes.
• 4 Egg · was the main panel painting medium in medieval Europe.
• 5 Traditional Chinese ink painting uses a brush, ink and absorbent · or silk.
• 6 Jan van Eyck helped popularize · in the fifteenth century.
• 7 Many Fayum mummy portraits from Roman Egypt were painted in wax.
• 8 Natural ultramarine was made from · mined in Afghanistan.