Art app

Cards (18)

  • Encaustic
    Also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added
  • Tempera
    Also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with glutinous material such as egg yolk
  • Fresco - the colors are mixed with water and applied to fresh plaster which absorbs the color

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  • Fresco
    • Almost impossible to move, a disadvantage
  • Watercolor
    Pigments are mixed with water and applied to white paper, has a fast drying quality which makes it difficult to make corrections
  • Oil painting
    Pigments are mixed in oil, the surface that is most ideal is canvas, colors are more opaque, it does not dry quickly, you can make corrections easily
  • Pastel
    The pigment is bound so as to form a crayon which is applied directly to the surface, usually paper
  • Acrylic
    Synthetic paints using acrylic emulsion as binder, they combine the quick-drying properties of watercolor and flexibility of oil
  • P
    • Pastel It has no glazed effect, the chalk sometimes tends to rub offstel It has no glazed effect, the chalk sometimes tends to rub off
  • Mosaic
    Small pieces of glass, pebbles, colored stones and tiles that are glued together by an adhesive such as grout
  • Stained Glass
    Commonly used to describe any colored flat glass or any object made of such glass joined by metal frames
  • Tapestry
    A form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom, but can also be woven on a floor loom
  • Subtractive sculpture
    The process in which unwanted material is cut away
  • Additive sculpture
    The construction of a figure by putting together bits of clay, or by welding together parts of metal
  • Mediums in sculpture
    • Wood
    • Stone
    • Bronze and other metals
    • Ivory
    • Terra cotta
  • Bronze
    • It is light and the figure can support itself in many positions
  • Ivory
    • It is an expensive and rare medium because it uses the tusk of an elephant
  • Terra cotta
    • It is a material made of clay and breaks easily, but is responsive to a sculptor's hands and tools