FINAL NATS 1870 MIDTERM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWER
Natural Inorganic (plant/mineral): - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅earth clays
minerals: vermillion, ultramarine and malachite
Natural Organic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Indigo
Tyrian Purple
Madder Red
Synthetic Organic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅post Perkin dyes
Perkins violet
alizarian crimson
azo family
phthalocyanines
Synthetic Inorganic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅arsenic-containing greens
chromium yellow, orange
cadmium reds
Making paint - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pigments are ground to form a powder, then mixed with cave
water. Animal fats, vegetable oills and urine was used to help paint adhere
Ancient Faience - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅grinding quartz or sand crystals and mixing them with various
levels of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and/or copper oxide.
When heated forms a glass like glaze.
Ultramarine pigment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Lapis Lazuli is ground and mixed with wax, flax oil and
pine resin. It is then kneaded in a dilute dye bath.
Van Gogh - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Used chrome yellow which degrades into brown in some instances.
, Paint Components - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅binders
pigments
volatile substances
additives
Pigments - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅give paint colour
Binder - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅forms a coating when it dries that traps pigment particles to the surface
Additive - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅help all parts of the paint to work together
Volatile - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅help polymerization to occur
Paint Types - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅watercolours
egg tempera
acrylic
oil paints
Drying Process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Oil or fat molecules contain chains of carbon atoms.
Unsaturated fats have a double bond, which makes it easier for them to form bonds with other fat
molecules.
Monounsaturated - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅one double bond
Polyunsaturated - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅many double bonds
Drying oils - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅polyunsaturated (linseed, poppy)
Natural Inorganic (plant/mineral): - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅earth clays
minerals: vermillion, ultramarine and malachite
Natural Organic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Indigo
Tyrian Purple
Madder Red
Synthetic Organic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅post Perkin dyes
Perkins violet
alizarian crimson
azo family
phthalocyanines
Synthetic Inorganic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅arsenic-containing greens
chromium yellow, orange
cadmium reds
Making paint - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pigments are ground to form a powder, then mixed with cave
water. Animal fats, vegetable oills and urine was used to help paint adhere
Ancient Faience - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅grinding quartz or sand crystals and mixing them with various
levels of sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and/or copper oxide.
When heated forms a glass like glaze.
Ultramarine pigment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Lapis Lazuli is ground and mixed with wax, flax oil and
pine resin. It is then kneaded in a dilute dye bath.
Van Gogh - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Used chrome yellow which degrades into brown in some instances.
, Paint Components - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅binders
pigments
volatile substances
additives
Pigments - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅give paint colour
Binder - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅forms a coating when it dries that traps pigment particles to the surface
Additive - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅help all parts of the paint to work together
Volatile - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅help polymerization to occur
Paint Types - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅watercolours
egg tempera
acrylic
oil paints
Drying Process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Oil or fat molecules contain chains of carbon atoms.
Unsaturated fats have a double bond, which makes it easier for them to form bonds with other fat
molecules.
Monounsaturated - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅one double bond
Polyunsaturated - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅many double bonds
Drying oils - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅polyunsaturated (linseed, poppy)
