{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/art-drawing-painting-techniques",
 "id": "art-drawing-painting-techniques",
 "title": "Drawing and Painting Techniques",
 "category": "arts-music",
 "subject": "Visual Art",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12",
  "adult"
 ],
 "description": "Art materials, techniques and media for drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.",
 "tags": [
  "techniques",
  "drawing",
  "painting",
  "media"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Hatching",
   "Drawing closely spaced parallel lines to show shade"
  ],
  [
   "Cross-hatching",
   "Layers of hatching lines crossing each other for darker shade"
  ],
  [
   "Stippling",
   "Making shade or texture with tiny dots"
  ],
  [
   "Blending",
   "Smoothing colors or values together so they merge"
  ],
  [
   "Shading",
   "Adding darkness to show form and light"
  ],
  [
   "Contour drawing",
   "Drawing the outline and edges of an object"
  ],
  [
   "Gesture drawing",
   "Quick loose drawing capturing movement"
  ],
  [
   "Blind contour drawing",
   "Drawing an outline while looking only at the subject, not the paper"
  ],
  [
   "Sketch",
   "A quick, rough drawing"
  ],
  [
   "Thumbnail sketch",
   "A small quick drawing to plan a composition"
  ],
  [
   "Charcoal",
   "Soft black drawing material made from burnt wood"
  ],
  [
   "Graphite",
   "The gray material in pencils"
  ],
  [
   "Pastel",
   "Chalk-like sticks of pigment"
  ],
  [
   "Conte crayon",
   "A hard drawing stick in black, brown or red"
  ],
  [
   "Pen and ink",
   "Drawing with a pen dipped in or filled with ink"
  ],
  [
   "Watercolor",
   "Paint made of pigment and water on paper, see-through and light"
  ],
  [
   "Gouache",
   "Opaque water-based paint"
  ],
  [
   "Acrylic paint",
   "Fast-drying plastic-based paint that cleans up with water"
  ],
  [
   "Oil paint",
   "Slow-drying paint made with oil, used since the Renaissance"
  ],
  [
   "Tempera",
   "Paint made with egg yolk or similar binder"
  ],
  [
   "Fresco",
   "Painting on wet plaster"
  ],
  [
   "Encaustic",
   "Painting with colored melted wax"
  ],
  [
   "Impasto",
   "Paint applied thickly so the brushstrokes show"
  ],
  [
   "Glaze",
   "A thin see-through layer of paint over another"
  ],
  [
   "Wash",
   "A thin, watery layer of paint"
  ],
  [
   "Wet-on-wet",
   "Painting wet paint onto a wet surface so colors blend"
  ],
  [
   "Wet-on-dry",
   "Painting wet paint onto dry paper for sharper edges"
  ],
  [
   "Dry brush",
   "Using a brush with little paint to make scratchy texture"
  ],
  [
   "Scumbling",
   "Dragging dry paint lightly over another layer"
  ],
  [
   "Palette",
   "A surface for mixing paint, or an artist's chosen set of colors"
  ],
  [
   "Easel",
   "A stand that holds a canvas upright"
  ],
  [
   "Canvas",
   "Cloth stretched on a frame for painting"
  ],
  [
   "Primer (gesso)",
   "A coating that prepares a surface for painting"
  ],
  [
   "Palette knife",
   "A blade-like tool for mixing or applying paint"
  ],
  [
   "Round brush",
   "A brush with a pointed tip for lines and details"
  ],
  [
   "Flat brush",
   "A brush for broad strokes and sharp edges"
  ],
  [
   "Collage",
   "Artwork made by gluing pieces of paper and other materials together"
  ],
  [
   "Assemblage",
   "Art made from found objects put together in 3D"
  ],
  [
   "Mosaic",
   "A picture made of small pieces of tile, glass or stone"
  ],
  [
   "Mixed media",
   "Art that uses more than one material"
  ],
  [
   "Printmaking",
   "Making art by transferring ink from a surface to paper"
  ],
  [
   "Woodcut",
   "A print made from carved wood"
  ],
  [
   "Linocut",
   "A print made from carved linoleum"
  ],
  [
   "Etching",
   "A print made from lines cut into metal with acid"
  ],
  [
   "Lithography",
   "Printing from a flat stone or plate using grease and water"
  ],
  [
   "Silkscreen",
   "Pushing ink through a stencil mesh onto a surface"
  ],
  [
   "Monoprint",
   "A single print that cannot be repeated exactly"
  ],
  [
   "Batik",
   "Fabric dyeing method that uses wax to resist the dye"
  ],
  [
   "Tie-dye",
   "Dyeing cloth that has been tied to make patterns"
  ],
  [
   "Pottery",
   "Objects made of clay and baked hard"
  ],
  [
   "Kiln",
   "An oven for firing clay"
  ],
  [
   "Slip",
   "Liquid clay used to join pieces"
  ],
  [
   "Score and slip",
   "Scratching clay surfaces and adding slip to join them"
  ],
  [
   "Coil pot",
   "Pottery built from rolled ropes of clay"
  ],
  [
   "Pinch pot",
   "A pot formed by pinching clay with the fingers"
  ],
  [
   "Slab construction",
   "Making pottery from flat pieces of clay"
  ],
  [
   "Wheel throwing",
   "Shaping clay on a spinning potter's wheel"
  ],
  [
   "Bisque",
   "Clay fired once without glaze"
  ],
  [
   "Glaze (clay)",
   "A glassy coating melted onto pottery in a kiln"
  ],
  [
   "Armature",
   "A frame that supports a sculpture"
  ],
  [
   "Relief sculpture",
   "Sculpture that sticks out from a flat background"
  ],
  [
   "Sculpture in the round",
   "Sculpture that can be viewed from all sides"
  ],
  [
   "Carving",
   "Taking away material to make a sculpture"
  ],
  [
   "Modeling",
   "Building up material like clay to make a sculpture"
  ],
  [
   "Casting",
   "Pouring melted metal or plaster into a mold"
  ],
  [
   "Origami",
   "The Japanese art of paper folding"
  ],
  [
   "Calligraphy",
   "Beautiful handwriting"
  ],
  [
   "Illustration",
   "A picture that explains or decorates text"
  ],
  [
   "Vanishing point",
   "The spot on the horizon where parallel lines seem to meet"
  ],
  [
   "One-point perspective",
   "Perspective with one vanishing point on the horizon"
  ],
  [
   "Two-point perspective",
   "Perspective with two vanishing points"
  ],
  [
   "Horizon line",
   "The line where earth and sky seem to meet"
  ]
 ]
}