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Artists & Tools such as Brushes
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10 Questions

1. Which painter's tool comes in many varieties such as Angle, Mop, Stippler and Dagger?
2. The easel is a tool used for supporting a painting whilst it is being worked on. In the Netherlands easels are known as the Painter's what?
3. What is the most common tool used by graffiti artists to apply their paint?
4. Which tool is made from latex and used by the watercolour artist to create precision areas of white (such as highlights, stars or snow)?
5. Artists have used models to help them in their work since ancient times. Actresses, friends and family have all taken on the role in the past, but today artists in Britain can find models at the RAM. What do the initials RAM stand for?
6. A common tool in prehistoric paintings, and popular today amongst graffiti artists, what is the name of the tool which is used by Pochoirists?
7. What is the tool which was favoured over the brush by many artists such as Rembrandt, Goya and Courbet?
8. As an alternative to the brush or the palette knife, which animal is commonly used to apply paint?
9. What is the name of the stick with a soft, padded head, used by artists to steady their painting hand?
10. Used by artists for mixing their paints, a palette gets its name from the Old French word meaning a small what?