Art Techniques and Media

• a trois crayons
• abozzo
• abstract art
• abstract expressionism
• academic
• acanthus
• achromatic colors
• action painting
• advancing and retreating colors
• alla prima
• alligatoring
• amphora
• anamorphosis
• anthemion
• applique
• aquarelle
• arabesque
• art nouveau
• art rupestre
• assemblage
• asymmetry
• aureole
• automatism
• avant-garde
• bas-relief
• biomorphic form
• bird's-eye view
• bisque firing
• bleed
• blending
• blister
• bloom
• blush
• bottega
• brown coat
• buckeye
• cabinet picture
• cachet
• calendering
• calligraphy
• caricature
• ceramics
• chalking
• chasing
• checking
• chromatic colors
• chromaticity
• chrysography
• cinquefoil
• cissing
• classical
• classicism
• cleavage
• collage
• colorist
• commercial artist
• concours
• cool colors
• crackle
• crawl
• cribbled
• cubism
• Dada
• decoupage
• deep relief
• diorama
• double image
• dragging stroke
• drollery
• drypoint
• ebauche
• eclecticism
• ecorche
• electroplate
• emboss
• en camaieu
• encaustic
• epigone
• etching
• exploded view
• expressionism
• fauvism
• fecit
• festoon
• figurine
• filigree
• film
• fine art
• flat
• flesh color
• floating signature
• foliated
• foreground
• foreshortening
• foxing
• fresco
• frilling
• frottage
• fugitive colors
• gallery tone
• garzone
• geometric abstraction
• gilded
• gilding
• glost fire
• glyptic art
• goffer
• gouache
• graphic arts
• grisaille
• grotesque
• ground
• guilloche
• hatching
• hue
• icon
• idiom
• illumination
• impasto
• impressionism
• inherent vice
• inlay
• inpainting
• intaglio
• intarsia
• intonaco
• journeyman
• kickwheel
• kiln
• kinetic art
• kitsch
• lacuna
• landscape
• limited edition
• line drawing
• lithochromy
• lithograph
• lithography
• local color
• magic realism
• marbling
• marouflage
• marquetry
• master
• masterpiece
• mat
• matte
• mechanical drawing
• medium
• mezzo fresco
• mobile
• moire effect
• monochrome
• montage
• mosaic
• motif
• mural
• neoclassical art
• neutral color
• nonobjective art
• nouveau
• object d'art
• objective art
• op art
• opening
• optical mixing
• overpainting
• painterly
• palmette
• pastel
• pastel shades
• pastiche
• pate-sur-pate
• perspective
• petite nature
• pochade
• polychrome
• pop art
• portrait
• postiche
• pouncing
• pricking
• primary colors
• primer
• primitive
• profil perdu
• psychedelic art
• realism
• relief
• Renaissance
• repousse
• retouching
• rococo
• rubbing
• scale drawing
• scrambled colors
• scrimshaw
• scroll
• scumble
• secco
• secondary colors
• serigraph
• sfumato
• sgraffito
• shading
• silhouette
• silk screen
• sketch
• smooch
• sotto in su
• squaring
• stenciling
• still life
• stipple
• study
• surrealism
• tempera
• tenebrism
• tertiary colors
• tessellated
• thumbnail sketch
• tondo
• tone
• topographic landscape
• tormented color
• traction fissure
• trompe l'oeil
• underpainting
• vanishing point
• veduta
• vignette
• warm colors
• wash
• wash brush
• watercolors
• wedging
• woodcut
• worm's-eye view