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11 Cards in this Set
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Contour |
The lines within an outline that give an object its volume, such as the hoops around a barrel. Sometimes used synonymously with outline. |
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Outline |
A real or imaginary line that describes a shape and it's excess or boundaries. |
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Silverpoint |
A precursor to the pencil: a pen-like instrument with a silver tip or a silver wire gripped within a clutch holder. Produces fine lines that are permanent and cannot be erased. |
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Implied Line |
Points or Short lines that are arranged in a way that our brains join the dots, fill the gap, and complete the picture. |
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Psychic Line |
A conceptual connection between two points or elements. |
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Cross-hatching |
Superimposing hatched lines at right angles to the initial hatched lines, to build up value and to suggest form and valume. |
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Explicit line |
A line or edge within which forms are clearly delineated. |
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Gesture Drawing |
A loose expressive drawing of Forms with respect to dynamics of scene or pose, and the movement of the eye, rather than a tight arrangement of shapes. |
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Mezzotint |
A printmaking process in which the plate is first pitted all over with tiny indentations which, if printed, would give a uniform dark area. The artist then scrapes and burnishes these away to create areas of white. |
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Lost and found edges |
Where edges are sometimes hard and sharp against a background, and sometimes are soft and blurred, receding into the background. Now you see them, now you don't. |
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Bridge Passage |
Where two adjacent parallel planes are graduated in opposite directions, from dark to light, and light to dark, there will be an area where differences of value dissolve. |
