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Artistic Media

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Fresco   A painting technique that applies water-based paint to a wet-plaster surface; also, resulting artwork  
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Lithography   A printing technique employing the antipathy of oil and water; a flat surface with a design area (image) that is in-receptive is printed and the non-printed area is ink-repellent.  
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Serigraphy   A printing technique that forces ink through a stencil (image) on a screen stretched with a fine silk or similar fabric; also called silk-screening or screen-printing.  
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Gouache   Watercolor to which an opaque white has been added; also, resulting artwork  
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Pastel   A soft, colored chalk stick or crayon made of pigments and a gum binder, usually applied to paper; also, resulting artwork.  
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Relief printing   A technique in which the intended printing surface is left raised, with remaining areas cut away.  
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Linear Perspective   The use of light, atmosphere, and haziness to indicate depth or distance  
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Aerial or atmospheric perspective   The use of light, atmosphere, and haziness to indicate depth or distance  
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Naturalism/Naturalistic Art   Representational art which retains some of the natural appearance of the objects depicted  
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Water Color   A vivid water-based paint, usually applied to paper, with outstanding brilliance and translucence; also resulting artwork  
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Intaglio   A printing technique in which an image is printed from a recessed design incised or etched into the surface of a plate  
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Chiarascuro   A way to create the illusion of depth through gradations of light and dark; Italian for "light-dark"  
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Impasto   The thick application of paint creating a textured surface on the canvas  
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Oil Paint   A paint made of color pigments mixed in slowly drying oil; its main binding agent for pigment is linseed oil  
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Drypoint   A printing technique (intaglio) involving drawing directly onto the surface of a metal plate with a sharp, pointed tool, often with a diamond point  
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Aquatint   A method of etching (intaglio) that imitates the broad tints of a water color  
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Daguerrotype photography   Named after its French inventor Louis Daguerre, an early (1839) photographic process where an image is made directly onto a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate, without using negative.  
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Encaustic   A painting technique which originated in ancient times, using pigments mixed with melted beeswax as a binder.  
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