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(noun) - A binder is the agent in paint that serves - on the molecular level - to make the paint stick to the support (that is, the canvas, board, or what have you).

Binder
In painting, any substance (e.g. oil, gum arabic,casein) mixed with pigment in order to make it adhere to a surface ...

Binder
The material used in paint that causes pigment particles to adhere to one another and to the support; The stable adhesive liquid portion of a paint that attaches pigment particles and the paint film as a whole to the support.
Bistre ...

Binder: That which holds the paint together, such as linseed oil for oil painting, polymers for acrylics, gum arabic for watercolors and gouache.
Blending: Fusing two color planes together so no discernable sharp divisions are apparent.

Binder's Board
Binding
Various methods of securing folded sections together and or fastening them to a cover; to form single copies of a book.

BINDER
A substance in paints that causes particles of pigment to adhere to one another and to a
support such as oil or acrylic.

BINDER - Used to ensure particles of pigment stick to one another in artist paint such as Oil or Acrylic ...

binder - The ingredient in the vehicle of a paint which adheres the pigment particles to one another and to the ground. It creates uniform consistency, solidity, and cohesion.
Also see adhesive, adobe, mortar and pestle, polymer clay, and solvent.

Binder
The substance mixed with pigment to make paint adhere to a surface: oil for oil paints, gum Arabic for watercolor, etc. Sometimes wrongly called binding.

binder...The liquid medium that is mixed with pigment to form paint, or pastel sticks. The binder used for water-colour is gum arabic; oil paints are bound with oil, acrylics with a synthetic resin, and pastels with gum tragacanth.

Binder:- The nonvolatile adhesive liquid portion of a paint that attaches pigment particles and the paint film as a whole to the support. Return to top ...

Binder: Ingredient - oil for oil paint, gum Arabic for watercolors - mixed with pigment to make the paint stick to a surface.

acrylic - clear plastic binder used in the manufacture of paint and as a casting material in sculpture; acrylic resin ...

acrylic (acrylic resin) A clear plastic used as a binder in paint and as a casting material in sculpture.

In classical Greco-Roman times the most common medium was encaustic, in which colours are ground in a molten beeswax binder (or resin binder) and applied to the painting surface while hot.

Sand and binder on wood.
Andre Derain. Bathers. 1907.
Andrew Wyeth. Christina's World (1948). Tempera on panel.
Andy Warhol. Gold Marilyn Monroe. 1962. Silkscreen ink on canvas.
Anselm Kiefer. Wooden Room. 1972. Charcoal and oil on burlap.

ACRYLIC: pigment in a plastic binder medium; water-based paint that adheres to most surfaces.
ACTION PAINTING: a way of painting by splashing and dripping paint with energetic movements. It was made famous by Jackson Pollock.

BINDER
the material that holds the color or pigment to a support. Also called the vehicle.
CHIAROSCURO
a method of using darks and lights to create an illusion of naturalistic depth.
DRY BRUSH ...

Acrylic Paint: a pigment in a plastic binder medium that is water based and adheres to most surfaces. Acrylic paint is used to mimic the look of oil paint. The advantages of acrylic over oil is that it is less toxic and it dries more quickly.

^ Judith Bookbinder, Boston modern: figurative expressionism as alternative modernism (Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, ©2005.) ISBN 1584654880 9781584654889
^ Thomas B.

Acrylic: A plastic binder medium for pigments that is soluble in water. Developed about 1960.
Airbrush: To apply in a fine spray by compressed air, as paint.
Alabaster: A dense, translucent, white or tinted, fine-grained gypsum.

HOW TO USE IT: Pre-mix the amount of dry pigments necessary for your session with the binder and paint. This emulsion may be used over rigid or flexible supports with proper application of gesso.

To make a print, a sheet of thin, high-quality writing paper was coated in a bath of albumen emulsion (a liquid binder of egg white containing salt).

While in many other kinds of photographic prints the metal image rests within a binder on the surface of a coated paper, here it is absorbed into the fibers.

They work as a binder that encapsulates the pigment and speeds the drying time. Varieties made with safflower, soy beans and tobacco-seed oils hold color better than those made with linseed oil.

A colored crayon that consists of pigment mixed with just enough of a aqueous binder to hold it together; a work of art produced by pastel crayons; the technique itself. Pastels vary according to the volume of chalk contained...

Watercolour is a medium or work of art made with paint consisting of fine pigment particles suspended in an aqueous binder which usually consists of gum, glucose, glycerine and wetting agents, applied to paper.

Pastel - Pastel is a stick of powdered pigment mixed with a binder such as gum ...more info
Pattern - Pattern describes a unit that repeats itself without variation ...more info ...

Casein Paint - A paint much like opaque watercolor in which casein-- a milk glue-- is its binder. Casein is a white, tasteless, odorless protein precipitated from milk by rennin.

A drawing medium of dried paste made of ground pigments and a water-based binder that is manufactured in crayon form.

Acrylic: Paint made from pigments and a synthetic plastic binder, water-soluble when wet, insoluble when dry.

Contemporary makers of adobes sometimes introduce additional or alternative binders or aggregates. This construction material is traditional to many cultures to which these ingredients were readily available.

Pastel A combination of pure pigment and binder forming permanent-colored sticks; noted for colors which go from soft to brilliant.

Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints.

The general method for these paintings was to apply a thin layer of binder mixed with color pigment directly onto uncoated and untreated canvas, and paint significantly thinned oils directly onto this overlay, ...

A pigment mixed with a binder and applied with water to give a transparent effect. Watercolour painting is typically done on relatively rough-surfaced, absorbent paper.
Techniques
Collage ...

A water-base paint made with an egg yoke binder.
Elements of Art
Elements of art are the basic visual symbols found in the work such as lines, shape, form, space, point, light, motion, direction, scale, dimension, texture and color.

acrylic paint: a water-based paint with a polymer binder; dries to a permanent finish.
aesthetics: the study or theory of the beautiful in art.
allegory: the symbolic representation of truths about human traits and existence.

Pigment that is dispersed into a liquid, called a vehicle or medium, which includes a binder to make it adhere both to itself and to the surface onto which it is applied.

Pigment which is dispersed into a liquid, called a vehicle, which includes a binder to make it adhere both to itself and to the surface to which it is applied. Types of paint include tempera, watercolor, oil, gouache, enamel, encaustic, and fresco.

casein A water soluble paint in which milk protein (casein) is the binder; also called milk paint.
castellated Decorated with battlements (a parapet with alternating indentation and raised portions); also called crenellation ...

The color analysis enabled to identify the colors he used and the binder of the paintings: poppyseed oil and linseed oil. The former dries off slower and yellows less.
The issue of black ...

The means of drawing or painting oil, water color, pen and ink, and so on are media. 2. The binder for the pigments, the vehicle. 3. A liquid such as oil or water or varnish in which the paint is prepared.

Watercolor - A painting medium in which the binder is gum arabic. Water is used to thinning, lightening or mixing.

Cave water and the calcium it contained were used as mixers, and vegetable and animal oils as binders. The artists had primitive crayons and they applied the paint with brush tools, though none has survived.

It thus embraces the burnish or water-gilding and the oil-gilding of the carver and gilder, and the gilding operations of the house decorator, the sign-painter, the bookbinder, the paperstainer and several others.

Paper Mache' - Papier maché is an ancient art consisting of paper and a binder, such as wallpaper paste or glue.

A painting technique which originated in ancient times, using pigments mixed with hot wax as a binder.
Engraving ...

Fresco: A painting technique in which the pigments are dispersed in plain water and applied to a damp plaster wall. The wall becomes the binder, as well as the support
Function: The purpose and use of a work of art.
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" After him, the binder gathered the lustrous pages and put them together under silver mounted covers, with heavy clasps.

Usually at the end of a book, print, manuscript, or piece of calligraphy, or on a painting. There are also colophons of artists and binders and patrons of manuscripts; often placed at the end. Greek, finishing touch.

See also: Painting, Sculpture, Tempera, Plate, Movement