Welcome to
The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Glossary
- achromatic grays
- aerial perspective
- alla prima
- assemblage
- asymmetry
- atmospheric perspective
- au premier coup
- background
- binder
- broken colour
- casein
- chiaroscuro
- chromatic grays
- CMYK
- collage
- colour theory
- colour wheel
- complementary colours
- composition
- cool colours
- diptychs
- drybrushing
- egg tempera
- encaustic
- extended contrast
- fluorescent colours
- foreground
- glazing
- gloss finishes
- grisaille
- ground
- hard-edge painting
- hatching
- high-key
- hue
- impasto
- imprimatura
- intensity
- interference colours
- iridescent colours
- irradiation
- light & physics of colour
- linear perspective
- local colour
- low-key
- mat/matt/matte finishes
- media (plural)
- medium (singular)
- metallic colours
- midground
- monochrome
- optical blending
- pastel
- perspective, see linear perspective or aerial perspective
- phosphorescence
- physics of light & colour
- pigment
- en plein air
- Pointillism
- polychrome
- primary colours
- process colours
- pull
- push
- saturation
- scumbling
- secondary colours
- serendipity
- sfumato
- sgraffito
- shades
- simultaneous contrast
- smooth blending
- solvent
- successive contrast
- support
- symmetry
- techniques
- tints
- tondo
- tone
- triptychs
- trompe l'oeil
- value
- visual illusions
- warm colours
- watercolours
Back to the main lesson?Art & Text (C) Linda Carson 2002
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