3. to paint / draw from nature (life)

Topical Vocabulary: Art

General Vocabulary 1. a painter / artist 2. to paint a picture 3. to paint / draw from nature (life) 4. to paint in oils (water-colours) 5. to represent/ depict/ portray smth 6. a realistic (life-like, faithful, true-to-life) representation 7. a brush stroke 8. an outline 9. a motif 10. a sketch; a still-life; a landscape; a rural (town, city) landscape; a sea-scape; a portrait 11. a nude 12. a sitter

Composition of a picture 13. in the foreground (background) 14. to stand (jump) out against the background 15. to blend/ melt into the background 16. at the base of the picture 17. to use perspective for a three-dimensional effect 18. the composition is lacking depth 19. the composition is simple and easy-taken 20. the focal point of the painting 21. a perfect harmony between… 22. to be sharply drawn

Colour Scheme and Light Effects

23. You can use different terms to speak about colour: primary colour, hue, tinge, tint, tone, shade. Look up the meaning of these words in an English-English dictionary and match them to the definitions below:

a) one of the three colours, which in paint, etc. are red, yellow or blue, that can be mixed together in different ways to make any other colour

b) a variety or degree of a colour

c) a form or degree of a colour

d) a degree of lightness, darkness, strength, etc. of a colour

e) a small amount of a colour

f) a very slight amount of a colour or of a feeling

Insert the ‘colour’ terms in the sentences below:

1) Their kitchen is painted an unusual _______ of yellow.

2) The paint we're using for the bathroom is white with a yellow ________.

3) His hair is starting to show ________s of grey.

4) In the Caribbean waters there are fish of every _________.

5) I have a _________ of regret that I didn't accept her offer.

24. Colours can be: warm, cool, rich, vital, blaring, saturated, subdued, sombre.

25. a limited range of colours

26. predominant colours

27. contrasting tones; to use high contrast colours

28. a light palette

29. the play of light and shade

30. to be flooded with sun

31. in partial (full, complete) shadow; a soft shadow

Lines 32. horizontal 33. perpendicular / vertical 34. parallel 35. straight 36. oblique / slanting 37. crooked 38. curved; a gentle curve 39. a semi-circular line 40. dotted 41. jagged 42. to bisect by a line Shapes 43. circle 44. oval 45. square 46. rectangle; rectangular 47. rhombus 48. hexagon 49. octagon 50. triangle; triangular 51. sphere; spherical 52. cube 53. cone; conical 54. cylinder; cylindrical / log-shaped 55. oblong 56. concave 57. convex 58. crescent-shaped 59. semi-circular / half-moon shaped 60. jagged 61. serrated 62. pear-shaped 63. pointed 64. pyramid-shaped 65. spiral 66. three-sided 67. wedge-shaped

Colours 68. amber 69. beige 70. black 71. bottle green 72. brick red 73. bright orange 74. bright pink 75. brilliant white 76. bronze 77. brownish 78. buff 79. charcoal grey 80. chocolate 81. coffee-coloured 82. copper 83. cream-coloured 84. crimson 85. dark brown 86. dazzling white 87. deep blue 88. emerald green 89. fawn 90. flesh-coloured 91. gingery red 92. golden 93. greeny-blue 94. greyish 95. indigo 96. jet black 97. khaki 98. lavender 99. lemon 100. light green 101. lilac 102. lime green

103. maroon 104. mauve 105. mottled blue and green 106. multi-coloured 107. navy blue 108. off-white 109. olive green 110. pale blue 111. peach 112. pearl 113. pitch black 114. pure white 115. purple 116. reddish 117. reddish-brown 118. rose 119. royal blue 120. russet 121. rust-coloured 122. salmon pink 123. sandy-coloured 124. scarlet 125. sea green 126. shocking pink 127. silvery grey 128. sky blue 129. smokey-grey 130. steel blue 131. straw-coloured 132. tan 133. tangerine 134. turquoise 135. violet 136. white 137. whitish 138. yellowish

Idioms

139. green with envy

140. to be green

141. to turn purple / white with rage

142. blue movie

143. to feel blue

144. once in a blue moon

145. out of the blue

146. blue-collar worker

147. to have blue blood

148. a black sheep

149. black market

150. blacklist

151. black and blue

152. in black and white

153. black look

154. blackleg

155. he is not so black as he is painted

156. as red as a beetroot

157. red light district

158. red-letter day

159. red tape

160. to be in the red

161. to be caught red-handed

162. to be yellow

163. to be blue with cold

164. as white as a sheet

165. to look at the world through rose-tinted (rose-coloured) spectacles

166. white wedding

Translate the sentences using the topical vocabulary:

1. Её новый мобильный телефон продолговатой формы и отливает стальным блеском.

2. Приятно было сидеть за новым овальным обеденным столом из дуба. Он был покрыт лаком янтарного цвета.

3. Гости расположились в комнате полукругом. Хозяин дома был бледный как полотно.

4. Она посмотрела вверх на небо; оно было очень ярким, почти бирюзовым.

5. Грабителя поймали на месте преступления.

6. Густо покраснев от смущения, она пыталась стереть пятно с ослепительно белой блузки.

7. Я очень редко встречаюсь с друзьями, и тот день, когда мы, наконец, собираемся, – настоящий праздник для меня!

8. Начальник потребовал отчет в письменной форме.

9. Две параллельные линии никогда не пересекаются.

10. Он побагровел от ярости, когда узнал, что собака сгрызла его остроносые туфли.

11. На картине было изображено несколько багровых и ярко розовых прямоугольников перемешанных с серповидными пятнами. Я сразу понял, что это произведение написал художник-абстракционист.

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Colour Idioms

Choose the correct colour to complete each sentence:

1) When the visitors from Japan arrived, the company gave them the ________ carpet treatment.

2) Julie’s letter was unexpected. It arrived completely out of the _________.

3) The ______-collar workers received a rise, but the workers on the shop-floor were told they had to wait.

4) Don't tell him you're a vegetarian - it's like a _________ rag to a bull.

5) I’m all ______ and _______ after being in that crowded underground train for half an hour.

6) When Bill saw my new car, he was _________ with envy.

7) We decided to celebrate by going out and painting the town________.

8) He had a fight at school and came home with a __________ eye.

9) Tina never comes here now. We only see her once in a __________ moon.

10) Tony can’t be trusted yet with too much responsibility, he’s still ___________.

11) You can talk to him until you’re _________ in the face, but he still won’t understand.

12) She's always looked at life through _____________-tinted spectacles.

13) She was in one of her __________ moods today.

14) The company fell deeper and deeper into the ___________ and then went bankrupt.

15) This new car is seen as the great __________ hope of the British motor industry.

16) He was caught ______-handed taking money from the till.

17) I couldn't believe it was true, but there it was, in _________ and white.

18) When I see people dropping litter in the street, it really makes me see _______.

19) Things are going very well for Brenda at the moment. When I saw her, she really looked in the ______.

20) That office block they built has turned out to be a real _________ elephant. They spent the earth on it and it’s still unoccupied.

21) The sales figures are down again and the boss is screaming _________ murder.

22) When his father told him later he couldn’t have a new bike, he went _________ with rage.

23) The student went as _____ as a beetroot when the lecturer gave her one of her famous ____ looks.

24) You can be sure to find quite a few _____ movies in that ____ light district.

25) I can’t really believe that Nero was as ____ as he is painted.

26) You are _____! You’re just afraid of what your wife will say.

27) I feel so ____ when I see you, hand-in-hand with another man.

28) My fingers were ____ with cold and I imagine my face was as _____ as a sheet.

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