Drawing Teacher

A term used to describe work that is without any particular function. Typically paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints.

A binder used in watercolors made from the gum of an acacia tree.

Painting, usually an altarpiece, made up of hinged panels.

Italian word for "light-shade". The use and balance of light and shade in a painting, and in particular the use of strong contrast.

Colors next to each other on the color wheel.

Art created from a realistic situation but represented unrealistically. Abstract art images are "abstracted" from real life images

A natural, moist earth substance used in making bricks, tile, pottery and ceramic sculpture.

A process, used by printmakers, of incising or scratching lines into a wood block or metal plate from which a print was made.

A surface preparation or primer made of chalk or gypsum for tempura or oil paintings that is painted onto the picture surface.

An artists finest work, or any particularly fine work.

Design, motif or symbol repeated over and over.

A structural support for an object. Particularly used in sculpture to build upon.

Clay objects that have been fired twice, the second time with a glaze.

A principle in art where important elements and ideas are emphasized via composition.

The technical reference to color.

Newspaper stock used for sketching, preliminary drawings and printing.

A rule in perspective to create the illusion of coming forward or receding into space.

From the Italian word meaning "drawing" which also implied planning and composing.

An arrangement of shapes adhered to a background.

The use of found objects or three-dimensional objects to create a work of art.