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ART 101 CHP 4, 5, 7
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10/01/2012

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Media, Medium
Definition
Artists' materials, such as oil paint or clay
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Metalpoint
Definition
Drawing with pure, precise lines made by a thin metal wire in a holder; the wire is usually silver, but other metals including  lead have been used
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Fixative
Definition
A spray of shellac or plastic polymer used in charcoal and pastel drawings to ensure a permaent bond to the paper
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Pastels
Definition
Colored chalk in sticks that are a combination of loose dry pigment and binder a paste of methylcellulose
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crayons
Definition
A colored drawing medium with a waxy or oily binder that adheres to paper; does not require fixative
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Conte Crayon
Definition
A versatile drawing crayon developed in the late 1700s. It comes in a variety of degrees of hardness and can be used to create both suble tones and dense blacks
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Pens 
Definition
Have been used since acient time.
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Cross-hatching
Definition
A drawing technqiue used to make froms appear three-dimenisonal. A series of parallel lines cross in a net-like fashion, describing the contours of a surface
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Ground
Definition
1. The visual plane where art elements (or figures) are organized.
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Encaustic
Definition
Is a painting medium that is at least seven thousand years old
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Tempera 
Definition
A painting medium in which pigments are mixed with eggs yolks
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Fresco
Definition
Pigment and water is brushed directly into fresh, wet plaster.
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Egg Tempera
Definition
Pigments that are mixed with egg yolks
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Glazes
Definition
Paint diluted and made tranparent
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Underpainting
Definition
Painting done as a foundation for subsequent transparent glazes. Usually establishies basic composition and tonal realationships
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Impasto
Definition
Thick paint that reveals the action of brushstrokes
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Watercolor
Definition
Transparent paint that is a quick drying combination of pigment and guum arabic. Diluted with water, it is usually appiled to paper
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Gouache
Definition
An opaue watercolor made by adding chalk to pigment.
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Acrylic
Definition
A water souble paint that dries quickly and can be applied to most surfaces
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Air Brush
Definition
A spraying device that uses an air compressor to propel paint mist through a nozzle
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Collage
Definition
The combination of cut-and-pasted paper, photographs, and other materials on a two dimensional surface
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Mixed Media
Definition
Mixed materials, using them in unusual ways and respecting borders between two and three dimensional froms 
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Camera Obscura
Definition
"Dark Room". By preventing all light from enetering a room and then cuting a small whole in a shade over a window.
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Daguerreotype 
Definition
The first permanent photographic image, invented by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre. 
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Lens
Definition
In cameras, the clear, rounded glass or plastic that focuses the light onto the film. 
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Shutter
Definition
The part of the camera that is triggered by the photographer and controls the time of the exposure.
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Aperture
Definition
An adjustable opening that controls the amount of light entering a camera.
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Photomontage
Definition
The imaginative combination of more than one photographic image
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