Glossary

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ceramic

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a word used to describe clay construction and products

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charcoal

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drawing stick or pencil, usually gray in colour, in varying thickness, used for collage, collograph and construction projects

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colour

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an element of art

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collage

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composition made by arranging and gluing materials to a flat surface

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complementary colours

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colours found opposite each other on the colour wheel; yellow and violet

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contour drawing

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a line drawing delineating the contours or edges of an object

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easel

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a frame to support an artist’s canvas

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engraving

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a process of incising or scratching into a hard surface to produce an image

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fire

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in ceramics, to bake clay in a kiln

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grout

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a filler such as plaster rubbed in between clay or glass tesserae in a mosaic

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glaze

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a transparent or semitransparent coating of a colour stain over a plain surface or other colour

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hue

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another word for ‘colour’

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kiln

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an oven for drying, firing and glazing clay

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line

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an element of art

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mobile

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a free-moving construction in space

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mosaic

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a design or composition made by arranging and pasting tesserae or cut out shapes of material next to each other on a background surface

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oil pastel

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a kind of pastel for colouring. Combines qualities of both chalk and oil

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paper mâché

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name given to paper crafts utilizing newsprint paper moistened with wallpaper paste or laundry starch

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pattern

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design made by repeating a motif or symbol

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still life

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an arrangement of objects usually on a table as a subject for drawing, painting

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tempera paint

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an opaque, water-soluble paint. Available in liquid or power form. Also called showcard or poster paint

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Texture

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the actual and or visual feel of a surface

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Positive-Negative

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Positive shapes in a composition or painting are the solid objects, the people, the trees, buildings. Negative shapes are the unoccupied or empty shapes between the positive shapes

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Primary colours

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The three basic hues; red, yellow, blue

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Relief

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a projection of something from a surface. Shallow relief as in a coin. Used to describe plaster relief

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Secondary colours

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Achieved by mixing primary colours; green, orange, violet

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Shade

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refers to the darker value of a colour. Maroon is a shade of red

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Slip

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clay thinned with water to a creamy consistency. Used as binder between two pieces of clay when modeling. Slip, coloured or white, called engobe, can be used to decorate greenware

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Sketch

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usually preliminary drawing made with pencil, pen, chalk, crayon charcoal

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Tint

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refers to the lighter values of colour. Pink is a tint of red

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Value

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in colour, the lightness or darkness of the hue

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Watercolours

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watersoluble colours. Usually transparent or semitransparent. Available in semimoist cakes or tubes