Art

• Printmaking is the process of creating art by transferring an image or design from a source onto another material. Here, the design may be transferred to as many materials as possible.
• Prints are made from a single original plate or surface, called a "matrix" which can be a metal plate, stone, wood block, linoleum, fabric, and many others.
• Relief printing is a form of printing in which the printed area holds the ink and is raised from the non-print area. Doing so creates a print when the plate with ink is pressed against another material.
• Intaglio printing is a form of printing in which the printing area is lowered from the non-printing area. The lowered areas hold the ink.
• Lithography is an old method of printing in which the image area holds ink while the non-image area repels ink.
• Screen printing is a form of printing wherein ink is passed through specific areas of a screen that are not blocked resulting to prints of selected areas of the surface.
• Colors can make a drawing or painting attractive and beautiful. But using a single one of this may not always result in a pleasing design.
• Different shapes are used to form an object.
• Value is an element of art which artists use to define form and create spatial illusion.
• Texture is an element of art that refers to the way things feel or look as they might feel if touched.
• Contrast is a way to stress the differences between elements like lines, shapes, or colors. It is used by artists to show opposite elements.
• Emphasis is an art principle that is used to draw the attention of the viewer to a particular area in the artwork.
• Artists have a way of combining similar elements in order to emphasize their similarities. This is referred as the art principle of harmony.
• Silk-screen printing uses a stencil to apply ink onto another material. It can be printed on fabric or T-shirts and can also be done on paper, wood, vinyl, or any other material that absorbs ink.
• Screen-printing is a process where a design or drawing is transferred to a screen as a stencil from where it can be reproduced.
• Design or drawing for silk-screen printing may be manually created and transferred to a transparency. It may also be done using software and printed on a transparency.
• Digital technology speeds up printing of original designs and made it accessible to many.
• Photography comes from two Greek words: photo and graph. Photo means "light" and graph means "drawing." An image or picture is created by means of light, that's why this is also referred to as "drawing with light."
• Contrast as a principle of art may be shown using complementary colors or differences. in light and dark.
• Emphasis is a principle of art in which part of the work stands out, in order to draw the viewer's eye there first.
• Harmony is a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts.
• Unity is taking the parts of a piece of art and unifying them into something better as a whole.
• Balance is arranging the elements in a piece so that there is equality from one side to the other.
• Pattern or rhythm is simply repeating an element that will cause the viewer's eye to move around to each element.
• Phone camera, with the growth of technology, taking pictures has become easy and handy.

  Mobile phones are now equipped with a camera, which is even more powerful than some regular compact cameras.
• A point-and-shoot camera is a still camera designed for easy use. It is also called a compact camera. It has small sensor and the lens is fixed.
• The shutter button is pressed to capture a picture.
• The battery chamber is a slot where the battery is placed.
• The power button is used to turn the camera on and off.
• The flash allows the taking of pictures in low light conditions.
• The lens is used to focus the image seen at close or far ranges.
• The memory card slot houses the removable storage card
• A port where power or/and data cables are connected.
• The monitor screen frames the image for your picture.
• Single-lens Reflex (SLR) and Digital Single-lens Reflex (DSLR) Cameras are cameras where a mirror in the camera's body reflects the lights coming from the lens and sends it through a prism and to the optical viewfinder.