Description

Absorbent Ground:
Accession or Accession Number: A sequential number given to....
Acid Free:
Additive:
Aerial view: To view something directly from above, generally from...
Anatomy: The physical parts of a body.
Atelier: A workshop or studio, in particular for....
B&W: An abbreviation used in commonly in Photography which stands for...
Bleed: Where two or more colors a cuased 'run' or 'mix' into...
Blend:
Bright:
Brilliance:
Buckle: Commonly refers to paper when....
Burnish: Burnish means to make smooth or glossy by?
Caricature: A cartoon like portrait where....
Closed Shape:
Coarse:
Coat: Refers to painting when a....
Conceptual Art:
Contour:
Contour Lines:
Contrast: The difference between light and dark.
Contrast key:
Copyright: Laws governing ideas, designs and...
Dark:
Deep:
Density:
Depth:
Emerging Artist:
Emulsifier: An Emulsifier is an agent or substance that....
Established Artist:
Fading: When colors effected by light and become paler.
Finish:
Foreground:
Formal Analysis:
Found Material or Found Object:
Genre: Originally a french word meaning...
Gradation: A gradual change of color or shade such as....
Graphic:
Grey Scale: A term used in drawing & photography to describe the gradation of shade....
Ground: The surface on which the artwork is applied.
Harmony:
Highlight:
Iconic Artist:
Imagination: The ability to visualise that which is not there.
Inspiration: Refer to detailed information.
Iridescence:
Light fast: The ability of a pigment to retain is color intensity and?
Linear Perspective:
Loaded, Loading:
Luminosity:
Mid-career Artist: A term used to describe an artist who is?
Mind Mapping:
Newsprint: Refers to Newspaper publishing...
Old Masters:
Opacity:
Painter:
Peripheral Vision:
Permanence:
Perspective:
Pigment Load:
Positive Space:
Proportion:
Render:
Resolution:
Retouch:
Retrospective:
RGB: Refers to color it means...
Saturation:
Solarisation:
Staining:
Style:
Support:
Talent:
Tone:
Tooth:
Toxicity and Safety:
Vanishing Point:
Viscosity:
Wool Scale Index:
Yellowing:



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