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When it comes to art, you will talk freely if you know some terms. Medium: The term medium has various meanings. For starters, it's used for the substance that binds the pigment in paint. In acrylic paints, this is a synthetic substance. In oil paints, it's natural oil such as poppy. In tempera, it's egg yolks.
A medium can also be something used to change the consistency of the paint. For example, a gel medium is used to thicken paint for impasto.
Translucent: permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
Encaustic: is wax that is mixed with oil paint then applied to a surface like a canvas. This medium is applied in layers with the use of heat and will give images a translucent affect and depth.
 Palette knife: A palette knife is used to spread paint on a surface creating thick trails of impasto paint, very similar to icing a cake. In fact the consistency of paint and icing are identical. Palette knives are designed so the blade can scoop and lay down paint with out the artist having to get paint on their hands.
 Value: Colour Value is the lightness or darkness of a hue. To raise the value of a hue, it is mixed with white. Lowering the value of the hue requires it to be mixed with black. A hue that has had white added to it is referred to as a TINT of that hue. A hue that has been mixed with grey is a TONE and one mixed with black is a SHADE.
On the right hand side of the diagram above, the hues have been gradually lightened by mixing them with white to create progressively lighter tints of four basic hues and, on the left, the values of these hues are gradually lowered to create progressively darker shades of the hue.
Pigment: The essential element of colour or substance of a colour like green which is in trees which is essentially chlorophyll.
  Print Making Paper: Is a very durable paper that has a rag or fabric content like cotton or silk, which allows the paper to be embossed under the pressure of a press. Printmaking paper comes in various thicknesses and grades. The best papers are hand made and usually quite expensive, $150. A sheet for high quality woven silk grade paper.Intaglio prints: Is essentially an etching which is an ink print made from a metal plate that has had an image scratched into it then covered with ink then pressed onto print making paper. The paper is dampened so it won’t tear under pressure.
"Giclée": were created in the late 1980s on the Iris Graphics models 3024 and 3047 continuous inkjet printers (the company was later taken over by Scitex, now owned by HP). Iris printers were originally developed to produce prepress proofs from digital files for jobs where color matching was critical such as product packaging and magazine publication. Their output was used to check what the colors would look like before mass production began. Much experimentation took place to try to adapt the Iris printer to the production of color-faithful, aesthetically pleasing reproductions of artwork. Early Iris prints were relatively fugitive and tended to show color degradation after only a few years. The use of newer inksets and printing substrates has extended the longevity and light fastness of Iris prints.
Monoprint: An image that can be created by various print making techniques like, lino cuts, wood block, intaglio etc….
The difference between this and conventional approaches to printing is Monoprints are never the same twice, which makes them unique unto them selves.
Mechanical / photographic reproductions: These images have been created by means of photography or digital scanning. The difference between this type of image and a limited edition print is that reproductions can be produced in unlimited quantities. The term “limited edition prints” does not apply here.
Contrast colour: Relates primarily to perceptual opposites of colour with in a specific context. The same colours can clash and also compliment depending on the context of usage. Yellow and purple are contrasting colours when set beside each other, when you separate them by a wide white strip they compliment each other. The intensity of a colour can have an effect on how much one colour contrasts another.
Complimentary colours: Are opposites on the colour wheel and in most discussions of complementary color, only fully saturated, bright colors are considered in this definition. Complimentary colours generally have equal elements of the primary colours.
 Multi perspectives: a drawing or painting of one or more than one subject or objects perceived from several angles and overdrawn on one surface.
Figure: Is a representation of the human body in photography, sculpture, painting, drawing etc…
Equivocal Space: As it relates to art is when 2 objects on the same picture plane exist one in front of another and yet they appear side by side. Linear perspective then dictates how these objects should be overlapped to create a more cohesive form and space relationship.
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