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| Acrylic | a resin based medium used for paint |
| Basic elements | The essential parts of principles in everything we see line, form, space, volume, color and texture |
| Bisque | The name applied to unglazed ceramic ware after being fired once |
| Block Prints | a print made from a carved piece of wood, linoleum, or latex |
| Caricature | Character studies, which exaggerate features while still resembling the model. |
| casting | making objects in molds |
| Center of interest | the part of a composition which is first to attract attention to |
| ceramics | a term freferring to the subject of pottery, tile, and figures |
| Collage | a picture or design made by assembling and arranging different kinds of materials, |
| Content | the ideas behind the artwork |
| Contour | an outling drawing, a line or lines representing a figure or mass |
| Contrast | to show noticeable difference when compared side by side. To place or arrange so as to set off or bring out differences |
| Crosshatch | To shade with series of lines crossing in various directions |
| Fire | to heat very hot in a kiln |
| fixative | a thin varnish spray, used to keep drawings from smudging |
| Highlight | the lightest spot or area in a painting, or drawing: spot or any of several spots produced by the reflection of light |
| Intensity | The value of brightness or dullness of a color |
| landscape | A natural scene or picture as seen from a single point |
| media, mediums | the materials and tools used by the artist to create the visual elements perceived by the viewer of the art. |
| line | the path of a moving point. It defines edges, direction,texture, folds, breaks |
| Mosaic | an inlaid design of glass or ceramic tile used for decoration of walls, utility counters, table tops |
| Opaque | Heavy or non-transparent |
| Pigment | any powder or easily powdered substance prepared as a paint by mixing with some liquid in which it is soluble. |
| Portrait | a likeness of a specific person |
| Repetition | Recurrence of the elements of art |
| Saturation | the greatest possible intensity of a color |
| Subject | The persons or things represented in artwork |
| Tempera | an opaque paint, usually mixed with water, sometimes egg |
| Translucent | semi-opaque; partly transparent..some light shines through |
| Transparent | see-through |
| Value | the gradation of light to dark in a color: range from black and white |
| wash | a transparent layer or coating of color |
| Wedging | the methhod of preparing clay by kneading it to force out air pockets nd make it consistently plastic |
