Glossary of Terms

Abstract Painting
Aerial Perspective
After Image
Artistic Licence
Aquarelle Pencils
Atmosphere
Background
Backlighting
Backwash
Blending
Blots
Body Colour
Broken Colour
Broken Edges
Broken Wash
Brush Drawing
Brushmarks
Building-Up
Chaotic Colours
Clouds and Cloud Formations
Cockling
Cold Press
Colour
Colour Changes
Colour Contrast
Colour Harmony
Colour Intensity
Colour Mixing
Colour Temperature
Complementary Colours
Composition
Composition Check List
Corrections
Counterchange
Danger Zones
Definition
Diluting Wash
Drawing
Drawing Board Angle
Dry Brush Drag
Edges
Elements of Painting
Equipment
Eye Level
Fixative
Flat Wash
Flowering
Foreground
Foreshortening
Glazing
Gesso
Golden Mean/Golden Section
Gum Arabic
Gradated Wash
Hake
Hard and Soft Edges
Harmony
Highlights
Horizon
Hot Press
Hue
Impasto
Lifting Out
Line and Wash
Linseed Oil
Local Colour
Lost and Found Detail
Luminosity
Mahl Stick

Masking
Masking Fluid
Mirror
Mirror Images
Mixed Media
Mixing Palettes
Modification
Monochrome
Mood
Mount
Muddiness
Negative Shapes
Negative Working
NOT Paper
Observation
Oils
Overlapping
Overworking
Paint
Paintbox
Paint Brushes
Palette
Palette Knives
Palette of Colours
Passage
Pastels
Patina
People
Pencils
Pencil Sketches
Pens
Permanency of Colours
Perspective
Photographs
Pigments
Planning
Positive Shapes
Preliminary Drawings
Primary Colours
Priming
Priorities in Painting
Proportions
Putty Eraser
Quiet Painting
Rags
Razor Blade
Receding Space
Recession
Reeds
Reflections
Reformatting
Rendering
Repetition
Resist
Restore
Reversing Tones
Rigger Brush
Ripples
Rough
Sable
Salt
Sand
Scale
Scraping Back
Scribbling
Scratching Back
Scree
Scumbling
Secondary Colours
Sgraffitto


Shadows
Shape
Silhouette
Sensitivity
Simplification
Size
Sketch Block
Sketches
Smooth Paper
Smudging Pastels
Softened Edges
Spattering
Spectrum
Sponges
Spot Colour
Spraying
Squaring Up
Staccato
Staining Colours
Starter Kit
Stencil
Still Life
Stippling
Stonework
Stratus
Stretching Paper
Strokes
Studies
Studio Sketches
Style
Subject
Sunset
Sun
Supports
Surf
Technique
Temperature
Tertiary Colour
Texture
Thickness
Thumbnail Sketches
Tightness
Tinted Paper
Tonal Contrast
Tonal Values
Tonal Weight
Tones
Tranquillity
Transparency
Turpentine Genuine
Turpentine Substitute
Underpainting
Unity
Vanishing Point
Variety
Variegated Wash
Vaseline
Vertical Format
Viewfinder
Viewpoint
Vignette
Warm Colours
Wash
Washline
Wash Off
Waterline
Water Soluble Pencils
Wax Resist
Wet-into-Wet
Wet-on-Dry


 

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