Chalk
White or off-white inorganic material composed of calcium carbonate. Naturally occurring, although also produced industrially throughout the twentieth century.
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chalk
chamber of wonders - See Wunderkammer.
chamfer - To cut through the thickness of a material at an angle, giving a sloping edge. Also, an oblique face or bevel cut at the corner of a board or post.
Chalking
A term used to describe the quality of print on paper where the absorption of the paper is so great that it breaks up the ink image creating loose pigment dust.
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CHALK calcium carbonate, used in gesso, mixed with colored pigment to make pastels.
CHINA translucent ware fired at 2,230 degrees F; porcelain
CHIAROSCURO the use of light and shadow to create a focal point or mood.
Chalk Manner Etching And Engraving
An intaglio method which uses tools with toothed points of varying thicknesses set at irregular intervals and angles which imitate the random character of grains of chalk on textured paper.
Chalk which is purified, ground with water and dried to form an inert pigment. Return to top
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XYLOGRAPHY
Rarely used term for woodblock printing. Also the mechanical reproduction of wood grain for decorative purposes. Return to top ...
Ed Chalk
Sometimes referred to by the French term sanguine, natural red chalk is a clay that gains its color from iron oxide, also known as hematite.
Drawing Chalks
Following a tradition begun in Stone Age cave painting, Italian Renaissance artists employed natural chalks made from mineral pigments, for drawing.
Chalk
Pigments mixed with gum and pressed into a stick form for use as crayons. Pastel is similar, but less tightly bound.
Chalk: Soft limestone sometimes used as a drawing material or mixed to make pastels and other crayons.
A chalk ground that absorbs oil. Used in oil painting to achieve a matte effect and to speed up drying.
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Red chalk with a rownish tinge, used for drawing. Saracens
During the Middle Ages, the Arabs or Muslims, particularly those who fought against the Christian Crusades. sarcophagus, pl. sarcophagi (Gk. "flesh eating") ...
Whiting:- Chalk which is purified, ground with water and dried to form an inert pigment. . Return to top ...
Chalk: Calcium carbonate, either natural or artificially prepared, finely ground to make a white substance used in gesso. It may be pressed in sticks and used in its white form, or mixed with colored pigments to make pastels.
sanguine - A red chalk drawing medium.
sans serif - In typography, a letter designed without serifs - "without stroke". Also called blockletter. The oldest lettering in recorded history was sans serif.
GESSO; mixture of chalk whiting and glue which makes ideal surface for painting in oils or acrylics.
crayon - stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk used for drawing
craze - to produce minute uniform cracks on a painted or glazed surface ...
by the artist alone and that has been printed by the artist or under the artist's direct supervision.
outline The contour of a shape or figure depicted by an actual line drawn or painted on the surface.
pastel 1) A soft crayon made of chalk and ...
GESSO: an under painting medium made of glue, plaster of Paris or chalk and water
GESTURE: the implication of motion in a shape
GLAZE: a glass-like coating that makes ceramics waterproof ...
Nearly ahundred years before Claude Lorrain had used coloured chalks as Dutch and Italian painters had used them, often with high finish, employing mainly red, blue and black, ...
Drawn with what looks like chalk but is actually an oil crayon on gray ground, it is one of his so-called blackboard series; this label is itself a kind of joke, like the descriptive titles people gave Judd's work.
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The ground is white, probably composed partly of chalk, and smoothly applied. Infrared reflectography shows freely drawn underdrawing in parts of the picture, such as the cliff on the left.
(1)'Gesso' is the Italian word for chalk, and is a powdered form of the mineral calcium carbonate. Historically, gesso was mixed with animal glue, usually rabbit-skin glue to use as an absorbent primer coat for panel painting with tempera paints.
Inspired by the chalky, pallid surfaces of fresco painting from both the ancient world and that of the Italian primitives, Puvis also resurrected archaic pictorial structures in which simple geometries, flattened silhouettes, ...
Absorbent Ground: - A chalk ground which absorbs oil and is used in oil painting to achieve a matt effect and to speed up drying.
[8] Scott's Grotto is a series of interconnected chambers, extending some 67 ft into the chalk hillside on the outskirts of Ware, Hertforshire; built during the late 18th century, the chambers and tunnels are lined with shells, ...
A GROUND made of gypsum or chalk mixed with water or glue to provide a dense, brilliantly white absorbent surface for TEMPERA and some types of OIL PAINTING.
Self-portrait in chalk, 1810 by fellow artist Georg Friedrich Kersting, 1812 Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 â€" May 7, 1840) was a 19th century German romantic painter, ...
Gesso: A mixture of plaster, chalk, or gypsum bound together with a glue which is applied as a ground or coating to surfaces in order to give them the correct properties to receive paint.
Pastels vary according to the volume of chalk contained...the deepest in tone are pure pigment.
oil pastels: media with similar color pigments as chalk pastels, but an oil-and-wax composition.
pastels: pigments pressed into sticks and used as a dry medium on paper; sometimes referred to as hard or soft chalk pastels.
A prepared plaster of chalk and white lead which may be cast to make repeating ornamental forms in relief to be applied to wood panels, plaster surfaces, etc.
Gilding
Ornamental coating of gold leaf or gold dust. Also known as bronze dor?.
Pastels are sticks of ground pigment mixed with chalk and gum or oil. This is shaped into drawing sticks. Pastels cannot be mixed on a palette like paints, but are mixed on the paper by overlaying or blending.
By age 7 he was playing the violin and by the age of eight he was playing with chalk given to him by his grandmother. In his early years Paul Klee wanted to be a musician but later chose visual arts.
A white ground material (chalk, white pigment, and glue) for preparing rigid supports for painting.
GLAZE:
Thin transparent layer of coloured paint used to tint the object/colours underneath.
paste A soft, subdued color; a dry paste made of ground pigments, chalk, and gum water formed into a stick; also, a drawing made with such a stick.
The ground is of white gesso (a chalk mixed with size, or glue), but it was common practice to cover this with a thin under-painting of terra verde (green earth) or verdaccio, ...
gesso A mixture of glue and either chalk or plaster of Paris applied as a ground or coating to surfaces in order to give them the correct properties to receive paint. Gesso can also be built up or molded into relief designs, or carved.
Gesso: Ground plaster, chalk or marble mixed with glue or acrylic medium, generally white. It provides an absorbent ground for oil, acrylic, and tempera painting.
Gesso: An underpainting medium consisting of glue, plaster of paris, or chalk and water. Gesso is used to size the canvas and prepare the surface for painting.
Pencil
A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate, graphite used for drawing
Pigment
Dry coloring matter; especially an insoluble powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint ...
Conté A proprietary name for synthetic black, red or brown chalk. Nicolas Conté invented the modern lead pencil.
Egg tempera A water-base paint made with egg yolk binder.
Pulped paper, usually combined with glue, chalks and sometimes sand. It can be shaped by molding and then baking.
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pigment A coloring agent in powder form used in paints, crayons, and chalks.
polychromatic Having many colors; random or intuitive use of color combinations as opposed to color selection based on a specific color scheme.
pastel - A drawing stick made of pigments ground with chalk and mixed with gum water; also, a drawing executed with these pastel sticks; also, a soft, subdued tint (light shade) of a color.
Plaster
When mixed with water, this powder will harden into a chalk-like solid used to create sculptures, and other forms of artwork.
The Milkmaid strikes a new note, far from the gloom and despondency of the Quinta del Sordo, the obscurity of the Proverbios and the records of cruelty and madness in his late black chalk drawings.
This is in contrast to the terms sketching, shading, rendering and painting. Loosely, drawing can also refer to virtually any image created by pencils, chalk or pastels and may include color and shading.
Sometimes literally moving earth and stone with modern machines--as in the case of Michael Heizer--and sometimes merely leaving marks on the landscape such as chalk lines or furrows, artists producing these works referred to them as "earthworks.
firmly on a tissue paper laid over it, making a clear impression on the ground. When the paper is lifted, the marked areas pull away with it, and the plate is then bitten with acid. A soft ground etched line can simulate the effect of a chalk or ...
The most reliable portrait of this artist is in the Basle Museum. It is done in red and black chalk, and represents him as a man with regular, well-shaped features, with a cheerful expression which also shows decision of character." ...
Conté - Conté is a synthetic black, red, brown or white chalk ...more info
Contrapposto - Contrapposto is an Italian word that describes a pose in which one part of the body is twisted in the opposite direction from that of the other ...
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