Colour and painting media quiz: Singapore O-Level Art (6114) quiz

Because dark colours dry faster than light ones

Because it is transparent, so the paper provides the highlights and a light colour cannot easily cover a dark one

Because watercolour cannot make dark colours

Because the rules of the exam require it

It is transparent and built light to dark

It can never be applied thickly

It is opaque, can be layered light over dark, and corrected by painting over

It must reserve the white of the paper for highlights

Add a small amount of its complementary colour

Add black

Add more water only

Add white

Line, shape and form

Hue, value and saturation

Wet, dry and thick

Warm, cool and neutral

Warm colours recede and cool colours advance

Temperature has no effect on depth

Warm colours tend to advance and cool colours tend to recede

Only value affects depth, never temperature

Black plus white only

Any two primaries in equal amounts always

Watering down a single primary

Neutralising a colour with its complementary

The character of the marks an artist leaves, such as smooth, broken, dry-brush or gestural

Signing your name on the work

Marking the page with a grid before painting

The grade a marker gives the work

It does not; only the subject matters

Because thicker marks always score higher

Because the same subject reads differently in calm blended strokes versus fast broken ones, so marks carry feeling

Because marks only matter in drawing, not painting

An even layer of a single transparent colour across an area

A thick, opaque layer of paint

A layer of dry-brush texture

A mix of black and white only

To use every colour in the box

To make the painting take longer

Because schemes are required by the exam board

To control mood, depth and focus on purpose rather than colouring at random

Yes, any medium is allowed

Only acrylic is allowed

Only watercolour is allowed

No, Paper 1 Section B permits dry media only; wet media are not allowed

Because the portfolio is marked only on watercolour

Because Part A requires a range across at least three art forms and media, so painting adds quality and variety

Because painting is the only thing assessed

Because painting replaces the need for drawing