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Drawing vocabulary
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Art History
9th Grade
10/29/2014

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Term
drawing
Definition
marks made with a moving tool on a hard surface and is considered the basis for almost any kind of art
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composition
Definition
the arrangement of the elements on the art surface. The planned provision order
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picture plane
Definition
the area covered by the artwork
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medium
Definition
art material used to create artwork EX: Prisma color, paint, pen and ink
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pigment
Definition
finely ground colored powder
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vehicle
Definition
holds pigment in suspension till use. Wax in Prisma color or wax in a graphite pencil
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Solvent
Definition
dissolves the binder so media(medium) may be used. may be internal or external, optional or mandatory
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hatching
Definition
sets of parallel lines that do not intersect, to create value.
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crosshatching
Definition
intersecting sets of parallel lines used for shading
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stipple
Definition
series of dots that create value
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shading
Definition
laying value down to show shadows and contours
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graduation
Definition
smooth even flow of value from dark to light or light to dark
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chiaroscuro
Definition
a technique used with extremely dark darks and extremely light lights, to create depth in an artwork
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outline/contour
Definition
describes outer edges and details of objects
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implied line
Definition
line that creates the illusion that its a line, but there is actually no line there
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lost line
Definition
line that appears and disappears then reappears again
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white pencil burnish
Definition
drawing technique using white pencil to smooth and darken a color
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saturation
Definition
the color that covers the surface completely not showing any of the under color
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