Glossary

 

Glossary

• Wash

- to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.

• Bleeding 

 - the extension of colour beyond an edge or border, especially so as to combine with a contiguous color or to affect an adjacent area.

• Sponging

- to wipe or rub with or as with a wet sponge, as to moisten or clean.

• Stamping

-  to mark or impress with a design, word, mark, etc.:

• Lifting

- to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.

• Stippling

- to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.

• Stencilling

- a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.

• Tearing

- shedding tears.

• Pop Up

- having pieces of artwork fastened to the pages so that when the page is opened, a three-dimensional cutout or object is formed and, sometimes, movement of a picture element, such as a door opening, can be activated by pulling a tab.

• Line

- a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface.

• Tracing 

- a copy of a drawing, map, plan, etc., made by tracing on a transparent sheet placed over the original.

• Doodling

- a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.

• Sketching

-  a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.

• Blind Contour Drawing 

- done by looking intently at the edge of an object, but never looking at the paper while the pencil moves.

• Continuous Contour Drawing

-  drawing a picture continuously without picking up our pencil from the paper.

• Modified Contour Drawing

- Is done when the artist looks intently at EDGES of an object, but rarely looks at the paper while the pencil moves.

• Collage

- a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.

• Size

- the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything.

• Scale

- to adjust in amount according to a fixed scale or proportion (often followed by down or up) 

• Colour

- the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.

• Media

- In the art and science of architecture, the design and construction of buildings and interiors, infrastructure and other physical structures are created. It can involve multiple disciplines of brickwork, carpentry, engineering, stonemasonry and many other skills.