Answer the following questions in the provided textbox.
1. As listed in class lecture, all paints consist of what three
ingredients?: All paints consist of 3 ingredients: Pigment,
binder, and vehicle. The pigment provides color, usually in the
form of a very fine powder. Some of the purest and most brilliant
colors available to the human eye are in pigment powders. The
binder is a sticky substance that holds the pigment particles
together and attaches the pigment to the surface. The vehicle makes
the paint a liquid, and can be added to the paint for thinning. In
traditional oil paint, turpentine is the vehicle; watercolors, of course,
use water.
2. What are the binders in the follow paints:
a. Tempera: It means “egg yolk”. A water – based paint that uses egg
yolk as a binder.
b. Watercolor: Paint that uses water-soluble gum as the binder and
water as the vehicle; characterized by transparency.
c. Fresco: A technique in which pigments suspended in water are
applied to a damp lime-plaster surface.
d. Encaustic: A type of painting in which pigment is suspended in a
binder of hot wax.
e. Oil: In oil paint, pigments mixed with various vegetable oils, such as
linseed, walnut, and poppyseed, were used in the Middle Ages for
decorative purposes. But, beginning in the fifteenth century, oil painting
flourished when Flemish painters perfected a recipe for paint made with
a binder of linseed oil pressed from the seeds of the flax plant, mixed
with turpentine as a vehicle. In this early period, artists applied oil paint
to wood panels covered with smooth layers of gesso, as in the older
tradition of tempera painting.
f. Acrylic: Paint that uses an acrylic polymer (a synthetic resin that
provides a fast – drying, flexible film) as the binder and water as the
vehicle.
3. Other than the binder, list 3 differences makes oil and acrylic
paint.
Oil: It can be applied wet into wet or wet onto dry. While timeless,
they require a little more work to clean and maintain; they aren’t
1. As listed in class lecture, all paints consist of what three
ingredients?: All paints consist of 3 ingredients: Pigment,
binder, and vehicle. The pigment provides color, usually in the
form of a very fine powder. Some of the purest and most brilliant
colors available to the human eye are in pigment powders. The
binder is a sticky substance that holds the pigment particles
together and attaches the pigment to the surface. The vehicle makes
the paint a liquid, and can be added to the paint for thinning. In
traditional oil paint, turpentine is the vehicle; watercolors, of course,
use water.
2. What are the binders in the follow paints:
a. Tempera: It means “egg yolk”. A water – based paint that uses egg
yolk as a binder.
b. Watercolor: Paint that uses water-soluble gum as the binder and
water as the vehicle; characterized by transparency.
c. Fresco: A technique in which pigments suspended in water are
applied to a damp lime-plaster surface.
d. Encaustic: A type of painting in which pigment is suspended in a
binder of hot wax.
e. Oil: In oil paint, pigments mixed with various vegetable oils, such as
linseed, walnut, and poppyseed, were used in the Middle Ages for
decorative purposes. But, beginning in the fifteenth century, oil painting
flourished when Flemish painters perfected a recipe for paint made with
a binder of linseed oil pressed from the seeds of the flax plant, mixed
with turpentine as a vehicle. In this early period, artists applied oil paint
to wood panels covered with smooth layers of gesso, as in the older
tradition of tempera painting.
f. Acrylic: Paint that uses an acrylic polymer (a synthetic resin that
provides a fast – drying, flexible film) as the binder and water as the
vehicle.
3. Other than the binder, list 3 differences makes oil and acrylic
paint.
Oil: It can be applied wet into wet or wet onto dry. While timeless,
they require a little more work to clean and maintain; they aren’t
