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Painting Describe each of the following painting terms: Acrylic – synthetic paint and commonly used today. You can correct your errors with this paint. It is fast drying and it allows you to work faster. Watercolor – water-based and commonly used today. No corrections allowed. It is fast drying and it allows you to work faster. Tempera – Used in the past and it is made of egg yolk. Fresco – you must have wet plaster and a wet pigment soaked brush. The pigment migrates thick into the surface of the plaster. This was used mainly in the medieval days and the renaissance. Oil – Oil based. It was created in the Renaissance. Slow drying and messy to use. Palette – plate for mixing paint Glaze – thin application of paint…especially oil (da Vinci’s Mona Lisa), watercolor, and acrylic paint. Impasto – thick application of paint. Van Gogh actually squeezed paint straight from the tube to create works featuring impasto Opaque – Cannot see through it Transparent – Can see through it Translucent – Can see through it, but not clearly Binder – A substance that suspends pigment (color). Pigment – Color Solvent – A substance that removes paint. |