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| acrylic | a resin based medium used for paint |
| Analogous colors | neighboring colors on the wheel. Closely related colors which have on ehue |
| Basic Elements | the essential parts of principles in everything we see line, form space color |
| cartoon | usually funny drawings |
| Center of interest | the part of a commposition whcih is first to attract attention to |
| Ceramics | a term refering to the subject of pottery, tile, and figures. |
| Hue | the exact name of a color, its family name |
| Complementary color | Colors which are opposite each other on the color wheel |
| Contour | an outline drawing, a line or lines representing a figure or mass |
| Kiln | an oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying bricks, pottery, or limestone |
| Monochromatic | a color schemem using shades or tints of one hue |
| Primary colors | red, blue, and yellow |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Secondary color | colors made by mixing two primary colors |
| Throwing | the art of making pots on a potter's wheel |
| shape | an area having a specific charater defined by an outline, or by a contrast of color, value, or texture |
| Repetition | Recurrence of the elements of art |
| Subject | The persons or things represented in artwork |
| Tempera | an opaque paint, usually mixed with water, sometimes egg |
| Value | the gradation of light to dark in a color: range from black and white |
| Wedging | the methhod of preparing clay by kneading it to force out air pockets nd make it consistently plastic |
