Final exam Flashcards
Preparatory drawing
Cartoon
Ingredient that holds pigment particles to each other and to a ground
Binder
Preliminary coating
Primer/Ground
Soft, crystalline form of carbon
Graphite
Charred wood
Charcoal
Binder is greasy
Pastel/Chalk
Pigment mixed with wax and resin. When the colors are heated, the wax melts and the paint can be brushed easily. When the wax cools, the paints hardens.
Encaustic
Surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface such a as paper.
Matrix
Any printing method in which the image to be printed is raised from a background.
Relief
The areas meant to print are below the surface of the printing plate.
Intaglio
The basic tool is the burin, a sharp, V shaped instrument used to cut lines into the metal plate
Engraving
Done with acids which “eat” lines and depressions into a metal plate.
Etching
The printing surface is flat, not raised as in relief or depressed as in intaglio.
Lithography
Silk is the traditional material
Screenprinting
Only one print results.
Monotype