Acrylic Painting and Color Theory (Studio in Art)

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Across
  1. 1. This type of paint brush has a straight edge, but it can be different sizes.
  2. 6. This is the word for the study of color and how colors mix together.
  3. 7. The complement of Yellow is what color?
  4. 8. These are created by adding white to a color. This creates lighter variations of that color.
  5. 10. The complement of Orange is what color?
  6. 11. Red, Yellow, Blue. These colors mixed together create the spectrum, however, these colors cannot be created.
  7. 13. When you mix two complementary colors together, they ________ each other. This results in colors like brown and black.
  8. 14. This is the middle value in a painting, between the highlight and the shadow.
  9. 16. Orange, Green, Purple. These colors are created by mixing two primary colors together.
Down
  1. 2. Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Purple, Red-Purple, Red-Orange. These colors are created by mixing a primary and secondary color together.
  2. 3. You can use this type of white paint to prime a canvas for painting (starts with a G).
  3. 4. This is a thin, watered down layer paint that is done in the very beginning of a painting. This helps the artist to see the placement of colors before going in with thicker layers of paint.
  4. 5. These are two colors on the color wheel that neutralize each other, they are also across from each other on the color wheel.
  5. 9. These are created by adding complements to a color. This creates darker variations of that color (can also be made by adding black).
  6. 12. The complement of Red is what color?
  7. 14. Using a palette knife rather than a paintbrush is a good alternative when _______ paints together to make custom colors.
  8. 15. When Acrylic Paint dries, it dries to _____. This makes it permanent and hard to come out of clothes.