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ABSTRACT: Imagery which departs from representational accuracy, to a variable range of possible degrees, for some reason other than verisimilitude ( being true/authentic). Abstract artists select and then exaggerate or simplify the forms suggested by the world around them.
ACRYLICS: 1. An acrylic resin. (Any of numerous thermoplastic or thermosetting polymers or copolymers of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, esters of these acids, or acrylonitrile, used to produce paints, synthetic rubbers, and lightweight plastics.)
2. A paint containing acrylic resin. Quick drying and water-based.
3. A painting done in acrylics.
AIRBRUSH: 1. An atomizer using compressed air to spray a liquid, such as paint, on a surface. air·brush tr.v. air·brushed, air·brush·ing, air·brush·es. To spray with an airbrush.
2. Like an air-guitar, where you pretend you have a brush in your hand. Tee hee....
ARCH: A curved, often semicircular architectural form that spans an opening or space built of wedge shaped blocks, called voussoirs, with a keystone centered at it’s top.
Also a curved shape in drawings/paintings.
ART FORMS: music, visual, dance, and drama to name a few.
performance art - art in which works in any of a variety of media are executed premeditated before a live audience. Although this might appear to be "theater," theatrical performances present illusions of events, while performance art presents actual events as art. One of the things setting post modernism apart from modernism is its acceptance of aspects of theater. Performance elements surfaced in a number of conceptual art movements of the 1960s, including: Happenings, body art, process art, street works, etc. The 1980s saw the emergence of performance artists like David Byrne (American) and Laurie Anderson (American, 1947-), who had each been students of visual art, but whose work gradually incorporated voice, music, costumes, projected image, stage lighting, etc.

ART STYLES: Traditional, caricature, impressionism, realism, abstract, pointillism, oriental.
PAINTING KINDS OR TYPES, still life, landscape, garden, water, cities, buildings, people,
animals, tells a story, oriental, photography.

ART TOOLS See tools.
                   
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BALANCE: 1. A state of equilibrium or parity characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces.
2. Getting the same amount of paint on both sides of the canvas so the painting will hang straight. HA! Just kidding.....
BAROQUE: A style of painting, sculpture, and architecture born in Rome. The predominant style in Europe of that time. (1590-1730) It is characterized by excessive use of light/shade, rich in ornamentation, emotionalism, illusion, and an increased use of color. Essentially Baroque produced scenarios in which drama was presented within the forms of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
BAS-RELIEF: (pr. bah'ruh-leef') A French term meaning "low-raised work." This art, along with high relief, is known collectively as relief sculpture meant to be seen primarily from one direction, as opposed to sculpture which is in the round or viewable from all sides.
BATIK: (pr. buh-teek') A method of dyeing cloth which involves the use of removable wax to repel (resist) the dye on parts of the design where dye is not desired. Batik originated in Indonesia, where it's production continues to thrive.
BEVEL: The meeting of a line or surface with another at any angle other than 90°, or the angle at which they meet. Also, carving or cutting to make a bevel; a chamfer. It may also be an instrument which is formed by joining two rules as adjustable arms in order to measure or draw angles of any size or to fix a surface at an angle; an instrument also known as a bevel square.
BLOT: To soak up or dry with absorbent material.
BRONZE: 1. Any of various alloys (mixture) of copper, with or without tin, and antimony, phosphorus, or other components. 2. A work of art made of one of these alloys, usually casted.
Color. A moderate yellowish to olive brown.
BRUSHES: Tools used to apply paint and ink to a surface, consisting of hairs, or bristles held in place by a ferrule (metal ring or cap) attached to a handle. The hair may be from any of several sources, some of which are badger, ox, fitch, squirrel (called "camel hair"), and synthetic (man made) materials, though perhaps the finest is red sable. Bristles are usually from hogs, bristle brushes having a characteristic taper, or curve. Brushes for acrylic and polymer paints generally have nylon bristles compatible with those paints. Names and shapes of some brushes are bright, filbert, flat, and round.
BURNISH: bur·nished, bur·nish·ing, bur·nish·es.
1. To make smooth or glossy by or as if by rubbing or polishing in metal work, ceramics and gilding. 2. To rub with a tool that serves especially to smooth or polish. Burnishers are typically metal or stone, and held in a wooden handle. bur·nish n. A smooth, glossy finish or appearance; luster.
BUST: A figure sculpture or a painting representing a person's head, neck, shoulders and upper chest, and perhaps the upper arms.



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CANVAS: A prepared cloth surface used for painting. The canvas was universally adopted, in place of wood panels, during Renaissance years.
CARICATURE: A comical, satirical, or grotesque rendering by means of distortion or exaggeration. The art of making people look ridiculous has influenced politics, society, and the arts for centuries. The term was first given its current meaning by Annibale Carracci of the Bolognese School, who applied it to his own drawings.
CAST: A form for reproducing (making copies) of something. A mold.
Casting- The process by which a sculpture may be reproduced from a model of wax, or clay in a more durable material such as metal or plastic.
CERAMICS: Referring to the art or technique of shaping and firing clay, Earthenware, porcelain, stoneware, tiles, and art pottery are the most common objects made.
CLOISONNÉ: 1. Enamelware in which the surface decoration is formed by different colors of enamel separated by thin strips of metal. 2. The process or method of producing such enamelware.
COLLAGE: (mounting /pasting) The technique of building up a picture in two-dimensional form or low relief, which emerged from the work of Picasso (1881-1973) and Braque (1882-1963). In essence, non-art materials (newspaper, wallpaper, and wood), were applied to the support with drawn or painted sketches made over the principal features of the subject. This technique is regarded as a turning point in 20th-century art; the language of Cubism was worked out through collage. Today all kinds of found objects are used.
COLOR: Produced when light strikes an object and then reflects back to your eyes. An element of art with three properties: (1) hue or tint, the color name, e.g., red, yellow, blue, etc.: (2)intensity, the purity and strength of a color, e.g., bright red or dull red; and (3)value, the lightness or darkness of a color.

The Color Wheel describes the relationships between colors. It is laid out so that any two PRIMARY COLORS (red, yellow, blue) are separated by the SECONDARY COLORS (orange, violet, and green). Colors, Primary, red, blue and yellow, are basic and cannot be mixed from other elements. They are to color what prime numbers are to mathematics. One can mix two primaries to get a Secondary Color. You will notice that each Secondary Color, orange, purple and green, on the Color Wheel is bounded by two primaries. These are the components that one would mix to get that Secondary Color. Tertiary or Intermediate colors are all the colors between the Secondary and Primary colors on the colorwheel.
COMPOSE or COMPOSITION: Compose - To create, put together, or arrange the elements of art in a work. usually in a composition.

Composition - The plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work, usually according to the principles of design. The design of a composition should either be pleasing or otherwise expressive. The term has also come to refer to any work of art, because any work's composition is so essential to it.
CONTE: A soft drawing tool made by adding clay and pigment to graphite.
CONTRAST: A striking difference.
Colors that contrast, lay opposite each other on the colorwheel. Placing contrasting colors next to each other (but not together or...oh, oh, mud!) makes each color jump out. This can add vibrancy or illumination to art and design. Adding several different sets of contrasts can create visual noise or confusion. Sometimes this is a desired effect to create an emotional quality.

Shapes and other elements can contrast also, such as circles and squares, or uneven amounts of values or space in composition.
CRAYON: A stick used to apply color, made in a waxy base. Also a french term meaning pencil.
CUBISM: A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.



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DAUB: 1. To cover or smear with a soft, adhesive substance, such as plaster, grease, or mud. 2. To apply paint to with hasty or crude strokes. --intr. 3. The act or a stroke of daubing.
DELINEATE: 1. To draw or trace the outline of; sketch out. 2. To represent pictorially; depict.
DESIGN: 1.a. To conceive or fashion in the mind; invent: design a good excuse for not having done your chores. 2. To plan out in systematic, usually graphic form: design a building; design a computer program. 3. To create or contrive for a particular purpose or effect: a game designed to appeal to all ages. 4. To have as a goal or purpose; intend. 5. To create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner. 6. To make or execute plans or to have a goal or purpose in mind. 7. To create designs. 8. A drawing or sketch. (A graphic representation, especially a detailed plan for construction or manufacture.) 9. The purposeful or inventive arrangement of parts or details: 10. The art or practice of designing or making designs. 11. Something designed, especially a decorative or an artistic work. 12. An ornamental pattern. 13. Designs- A secretive plot or scheme: He has designs to take my cookie!
DIMENSION: 1. A measure of spatial extent, especially width, height, or length. 2. To cut or shape to specified dimensions. 3. To mark with specified dimensions.
DIORAMA: 1. A three-dimensional miniature or life-size scene in which figures, stuffed wildlife, or other objects are arranged in a naturalistic setting against a painted background. 2. A scene reproduced on cloth transparencies with various lights shining through the cloths to produce changes in effect, intended for viewing at a distance through an aperture.
DISPLAY: 1. To present or hold up to view. 2. To give evidence of; manifest. 3. To exhibit. 4. To be endowed with an identifiable form or character. 5. To provide information or graphics on a screen: a personal computer that displays and prints.
DYE: 1. A substance used to color materials. Also called dyestuff. 2. A color imparted by dyeing. --dye v. dyed, dye·ing, dyes. --tr. 3. To color (a material), especially by soaking in a coloring solution. --intr. To take on or impart color.



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EASEL: A wood or metal stand that artists paint on. Sometimes decorative for displaying paintings.
ELEMENT: elements of art or elements of design - The basic components used by the artist when producing works of art. A few of the elements are:
color, value, line , shape, form, texture, space

also see: principles of design and perspective.

ELLIPSE: A plane curve, especially: a. A conic section whose plane is not parallel to the axis, base, or generatrix of the intersected cone. b. The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal.
ENAMEL: 1. A vitreous, usually opaque, protective or decorative coating baked on metal, glass, or ceramic ware. 2. An object having such a coating, as in a piece of cloisonné. 3. A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish: nail enamel. 4. A paint that dries to a hard, glossy finish.
ETCH: 1. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid. 2. To make or create by this method: etch a design on glass. 3. To impress, delineate, or imprint clearly: a landscape that is forever etched in my memory; trees that were etched against the winter sky. --intr.
EXPRESSIONISM: (with a small - more general sense) A quality of inner experience, the emotions of the artist (expressive qualities) communicated through emphasis and distortion, which can be found in works of art of any period.


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FILBERT: A flat brush with rounded edges.
FOCAL-POINT: Or focus - A point of convergence, such as the point at which rays of light converge, or the point at which the artist has led the eye by his composing of the piece.
FORM: In its widest sense, total structure. The form of a work is what enables us to apprehend (understand) it. Form also refers to an element of art that is three-dimensional (height, width, and depth) and encloses volume.
FREEHAND: Drawn by hand without the aid of tracing or drafting devices: a freehand sketch.
FRESCO: An ancient technique for the painitng of walls or ceilings to make a lasting picture. Pigments are crushed in water and applied to wet plaster on the wall. This art form calls for precision, rapidity of execution, and supreme confidence.
FRIEZE: 1. In architecture- A plain or decorated horizontal part of an entablature between the architrave and cornice. 2. A decorative horizontal band, as along the upper part of a wall in a room. Could be carved such as in bas-relief, or painted as in a mural.
FOREGROUND: The area of a picture or field of vision, often at the bottom, that appears to be closest to the viewer. Also, to give priority to one aspect of a thing over another.


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GALLERY: 1.a. A building, an institution, or a room for the exhibition of artistic work. b. An establishment that displays and sells works of art. c. A photographer's studio. 2. A collection; an assortment.
GESSO: A fine plaster often used to prime a canvas so that the suface is ready to be painted. It imparts a distinctly characteristic quality to colors painted over it.
GILD or GILT: 1. To cover with or as if with a thin layer of gold. 2. To give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to.
GLOSSY: Having a smooth, shiny, lustrous surface/finish. Other types of surface finishes include, matte, satin, semi-gloss, or high-gloss.
GRAPHIC-ART: Basically the art of drawing and printmaking. Various media are used and, in its broadest sense, it can apply to anything that is linear; specifically, it refers to various print processes.
GRAPHITE: A soft, steel-gray to black, hexagonally crystallized allotrope of carbon with a metallic luster and a greasy feel, used in lead pencils, lubricants, paints, and coatings. Also called black lead, plumbago.
HORIZON or HORIZON-LINE: The apparent intersection of the earth and sky as seen by an observer. (The line where the earth meets the sky.)
HUE: 1. The property of colors by which they can be perceived as ranging from red through yellow, green, and blue, as determined by the dominant wavelength of the light. 2. A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint. 3. Color: all the hues of the rainbow.





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INK:A pigmented liquid or paste used especially for writing or printing.
INTENSITY: 1. Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force. 2. In color, the strength of a color, especially the degree to which it lacks its complementary color (or contrasting color). Saturation.
INTERMEDIATE-COLORS: Also know as tertiary colors, are located between the primary and secondary colors on a color wheel. Other intermediate colors are orange-yellow, yellow-green, green-blue, blue-violet, and violet-red (also known as purple)-- all colors in the spectrum except violet-red-- a mixture of the two colors at the extremes of the visible spectrum.
ILLUSTRATE-ILLUSTRATION: The artistic interpretation of an idea, scene, or writing, used to enhance the meaning of a text in books, magazines, and posters.
IMPRESSIONISM: 1. A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870's, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. 2. A literary style: Characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke subjective and sensory impressions rather than the re-creation of objective reality. 3. Music: A style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, using lush and somewhat vague harmony and rhythm to evoke suggestions of mood, place, and natural phenomena. 4. The practice of expressing or developing one's subjective response to a work of art or to actual experience.
INSPIRATION: 1.a. Stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity. b. The condition of being so stimulated. 2. An agency, such as a person or work of art, that moves the intellect or emotions or prompts action or invention. 3. Something, such as a sudden creative act or idea, that is inspired. 4. The quality of inspiring or exalting: a painting full of inspiration. 5. Theology. Divine guidance or influence exerted directly on the mind and soul of humankind.


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KAOLIN: A fine clay used in ceramics and refractories and as a filler or coating for paper and textiles.
LACQUER: 1. Any of various clear or colored synthetic coatings made by dissolving nitrocellulose or other cellulose derivatives together with plasticizers and pigments in a mixture of volatile solvents and used to impart a high gloss to surfaces. 2. A glossy, resinous material, such as the exudation of the lacquer tree, used as a surface coating.
LATEX: 1. The colorless or milky sap of certain plants, such as the poinsettia or milkweed, that coagulates on exposure to air. 2. An emulsion of rubber or plastic globules in water, used in paints, adhesives, and various synthetic rubber products. 3. Latex paint: having a latex binder. Also called rubber-base paint.
LIGHT: 1. Physics. a. Electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength in the range from about 4,000 (violet) to about 7,700 (red) angstroms and may be perceived by the normal unaided human eye. b. Electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength. 2. The sensation of perceiving light; brightness. The particular quantity or quality of such illumination. The pathway or route of such illumination to a person.

In art, and the use of color, light pertains to the areas that are illuminated (lit up), as oppossed to those areas that are in shadow, or no light. Colors are reflected back to the eye if they are not absorbed by an object or material. Without a degree of light, colors, shapes, and dimension would not be visable to the human eye. As light is reflected off objects, it bounces off other objects and adds to the new objects coloring. (If it is not absorbed.) Objects that appear black absorb all or most the colors of the spectrum, and those objects that appear white, reflect all the colors in the spectrum. All the colors in the spectrum that we can view in an object, are a product of what portions of light (the full spectrum) are not absorbed. Also see Color.
LINE: A mark with length and direction(-s). An element of art which refers to the continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point. Often it defines a space, and a way to create an outline or contour, define a silhouette; create patterns, or movement, and the illusion of mass or volume. It may be two-dimensional (as with Pencil on paper) three-dimensional (as with wire) or implied (the edge of a shape or form).
LINEAR: 1. Of, relating to, or resembling a line; straight. 2.a. In, of, describing, described by, or related to a straight line. b. Having only one dimension. 3. Characterized by, composed of, or emphasizing drawn lines rather than painterly effects.
LINSEED-OIL: A yellowish oil extracted from the seeds of flax and used as a drying oil in paints and varnishes and in linoleum, printing inks, and synthetic resins.



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MACHE (PAPIER): Strong but light molding paper pulped with glue and other substances, used most often in the construction of small and colorful sculptural creations.
MASK: An opaque border or pattern placed between a source and a surface to prevent exposure of specified portions of the surface. Used in stencils, airbrushing, and watercolors.
MATTE: 1. A dull, often rough finish, as of paint, glass, metal, or paper. 2. A special tool for producing such a surface or finish. Also see Glossy.
MEDIA: To name a few, oils, water color, pantile, acrylic, stains, inks, camera, concrete, metals (bronze, silver, brass, iron, pewter, etc), granite, lace, fabric, feathers, found objects of all kind.
media - The plural form of medium.
Also, may refer to mass media. Also see mixed-media.

MEDIUM: The material or technique used by an artist to produce a work of art. It may also
refer to the vehicle or solvent with which powdered pigments are mixed to make paint of the
proper consistency. The plural form is media.

METALLIC: 1. Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a metal. 2. Containing a metal: a metallic compound. 3. Having a quality suggesting or associated with metal, especially: a. Lustrous; sparkling: metallic colors.
MIXED-MEDIA: 1. A technique involving the use of two or more artistic media, such as ink and pastel or painting and collage, that are combined in a single composition.
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL: Of, relating to, or having several dimensions.
MUD: An Artist's term when too many colors are mixed together and make a gray or neutral color resembling mud.
MURAL: 1. A very large image, such as a painting or an enlarged photograph, applied directly to a wall or ceiling. --mu·ral adj. 1. Of, relating to, or resembling a wall. 2. Painted on or applied to a wall.



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OILS: 1. Oil paint. A paint in which the vehicle is a drying oil. Also called oil color. 2. A painting done in oil paint.
OVAL: 1. Resembling an egg in shape. 2. Resembling an ellipse in shape; elliptical. --o·val n. 3. An egg-shaped or elliptical form or figure.



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PAINT: 1.a. A liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating. b. The thin, dry film formed by such a mixture when applied to a surface. c. The solid pigment before it is mixed with a vehicle. 2. To make (a picture) with paints. 2.a. To represent in a picture with paints. b. To depict vividly in words. 3. To coat or decorate with paint: paint a house. 4. Computer Science. To display (graphic data) on a video terminal. --intr. 5. To practice the art of painting pictures. 6. To cover something with paint. 7. To apply cosmetics to oneself: “Let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come” (Shakespeare).
PALLET: Literally a thin board, with a thumb-hole at one end, or a tray-like structure designed to hold paints and brushes, upon which the artist lays out and mixes colors. A closed, limited or restricted palette is one employing only a few colors and an open palette is one utilizing the full range of hues.
PALLET-KNIFE: A tool, the working end of which is flat and is used especially for mixing and/or applying paint.
PANTILE
PASTELS: A soft crayon like stick made of chalk, powdered pigment and water mixed with gum. Also any work done in this medium. It is especially suited for sketching and for rendering Impressionist works.

Also, a pale, light color.
PATINA: The surface appearance of something grown beautiful or aged over the years. Also discoloration caused by exposure. Like the dark graining and finish in old wood furniture.
PERSPECTIVE: The technique artists use to project an illusion of the three- dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface. Perspective helps to create a sense of depth-- of receding space.
PIGMENT: A color derived from a powdered form obtained from the earth, stones, minerals, animals, vegetables, or chemicals.
POINTILLISM: A postimpressionist school of painting exemplified by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th-century France, characterized by the application of paint in small dots and brush strokes. French pointillisme, from pointiller, to paint small dots, stipple, from Old French *pointille, engraved with small dots, from point, point, from Latin punctum, from neuter past participle of pungere, to prick.
POLYMER: Paint, sculpture, and texture mediums made of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule.
PRIMARY-COLORS: Color. A color belonging to any of three groups each of which is regarded as generating all colors, with the groups being: a. Additive, physiological, or light primaries red, green, and blue. Lights of red, green, and blue wavelengths may be mixed to produce all colors. b. Subtractive or colorant primaries magenta, yellow, and cyan. Substances that reflect light of one of these wavelengths and absorb other wavelengths may be mixed to produce all colors. c. Psychological primaries red, yellow, green, and blue, plus the achromatic pair black and white. All colors may be subjectively conceived as mixtures of these. Also see Color, Light, Secondary-Colors, and Intermediate-Colors (or Tertiary-Colors).
PRINTS: This term is used in both original and reproduction art. For a print to be an original, the artist must do the plates or the stones. If someone else does the work, then it is a reproduction. Woodcuts, etchings, engravings, aquatints, lithographs, and serigraphs are forms of original prints. Each involves the artist's hand in brushing, or cutting.



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REALISM: 1. An inclination toward literal truth and pragmatism. 2. The representation in art or literature of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are, without idealization or presentation in abstract form. 3. Philosophy. a. The scholastic doctrine, opposed to nominalism, that universals exist independently of their being thought. b. The modern philosophical doctrine, opposed to idealism, that physical objects exist independently of their being perceived.
RENAISSANCE: 1. A rebirth or revival. 2. Renaissance.a. The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe. b. The period of this revival roughly the 14th through the 16th century, marking the transition from medieval to modern times.
RENDER: To represent in a drawing or painting, especially in perspective.
REPRODUCTION: A print or process made without the artist hand being involved directly. See print.



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SCULPT or SCULPTURE: Sculpt. - The act of sculpturing.

Sculpture - Its major techniques include (1) carved (cutting up), (2) modeled (building up), and (3) assembled (the joining or construction of prefabricated elements). It's three dimensionality creates volume, mass, and presence in space. Common materials used include bronze, clay, fiberglass, marble, plaster, stone, wire,, and wood.
SECONDARY-COLORS: Colors produced by mixing equal amounts of two primary colors. For example, mixing equal amounts of red to yellow will produce the secondary color of orange.
SKETCH: 1. A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study. 2. A brief, general account or presentation; an outline.
STAINS: 1. To color with a coat of penetrating liquid dye or tint. 2. A liquid substance applied especially to wood that penetrates the surface and imparts a rich color.
SUPPORT
SYMMETRY or SYMMETRICAL: 1. Exact correspondence of form and constituent configuration on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane or about a center or an axis. Balanced, porportionate.



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TEXTURE: 1. The basic structure or composition, especially of something complex or fine. 2.a. The appearance and feel of a surface: the smooth texture of soap; the rough texture of plowed fields. b. A rough or grainy surface quality: Brick walls give a room texture. 3. Distinctive or identifying character or characteristics: “the haunting contours and textures of the physical world” (Joyce Carol Oates). --tex·ture tr.v. tex·tured, tex·tur·ing, tex·tures. To give texture to, especially to impart desirable surface characteristics to: texture a printing plate by lining and stippling it.
TERTIARY-COLORS: Also know as intermediate colors, are located between the primary and secondary colors on a color wheel. Other intermediate colors are orange-yellow, yellow-green, green-blue, blue-violet, and violet-red (also known as purple)-- all colors in the spectrum except violet-red-- a mixture of the two colors at the extremes of the visible spectrum.
TOOLS: Those items that help to make art such as: brush, pencil, paint, crayon, support, sponge, pallet knife, pallet, airbrush, metal, print plates, sculpting tools, vegetables, nature objects, etc.

TINT: 1. A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation. 2. A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation (intensity). 3. A slight coloration; a tinge. 4. A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace. 5. A shaded effect in engraving (etching) produced by fine, close, parallel lines. 6. Printing. A panel of light color on which matter in another color is to be printed, as in an illustration.



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VALUE: Color. The relative darkness or lightness of a color. measurement, increment, amount, caliber
VARNISH: 1.a. A paint containing a solvent and an oxidizing or evaporating binder (vehicle), used to coat a surface with a hard, glossy, transparent film. b. The smooth coating or gloss resulting from the application of this paint.
VEHICLE: A medium through which something is transmitted, expressed, or accomplished. A substance, such as oil, in which paint pigments are mixed for application. A carrier.
VISUAL-ART: Any art for that can be viewed. To name a few, sculpture, painting, collage , prints, plant life, architecture, etc..




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WATERCOLORS: 1.a. A paint composed of a water-soluble pigment and a binder ( vehicle). b. A work that is executed through the use of this paint. 2. The art of using watercolors. --wa“ter·col”or adj. --wa“ter·col”or·ist n.
WET-ON-WET (dry on wet, dry on dry)



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