| A | B |
|---|
| Tempera | opaque water based poster paint |
| Pigment | powdered color additive mixed with a binder to make paint |
| Blending | use white to lighten, black to darken, mix a complement to dull intensity, mix 2 complements to get semi-neutrals |
| Wet-in-wet | blending directly onto painting while underpainting is wet |
| Dry brush | done with a semi dry paint brush loaded with paint onto a dry painted surface |
| Impasto | thick paint applied to painting |
| Glazing | is a transparent coat to allow underpainting to visually mix or show through. thinned down paint |
| Pointillism | using dots of paint |
| Scumble | dragging a paint loaded brush onto a dry contrasting painted surface, allowing the underpainted surface to show through. |
| Palette | flat, nonabsorbent surface on which paint is mixed |
| Opaque | cannot see through, as in gouache paint |
| Transparent | can see through as in thinly applied acrylics or transparent watercolors |
| Flat | a painted shape with no tonal gradation or variation |
| intensity | brightness or dullness of color |
| value | lightness or darkness of color |
| Hard edged | one color or tone not blended into the next color |
| Tint | add white to lighten |
| Shade | add black to darken |
| Lay in shapes | outline with paint |
| Block in color | fill in shapes with color |
| Complements | opposites on color wheel |
| Two-thirds Rule | used to find a good location for Emphasis |
| Grid Enlargement | using a grid to enlarge a flat image and keep all proportions the same |
| Circular Composition | placing any of the elements of art (shapes, colors, lines, etc) in a circular fashion to lead the viewer’s eye around the picture plane in a circle |
| Triangular Composition | arranging any 3 of the elements to form a triangle on the picture plane to lead the viewer’s eye in a triangular fashion. |
| Movement | COMPOSITION (HOW THE EYE MOVES AROUND THE PICTURE PLANE) , or rhythm |
| Harmony | in a painting, created by repeating similar brush strokes or colors, lines, textures, etc in a painting |
| Emphasis | center of interest, focal point., created through contrasting element |
| Bristle brushes | stiff) hold heavy thick paint like acrylics |
| sable brushes | (soft) hold lots of water – best for water colors |
