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Encaustic |
A type of painting in which pigment is suspended in a binder of hot wax. |
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Fresco |
A painting technique in which pigments suspended in water are applied to a damp lime plaster surface. The pigments dry to become part of the palates wall or surface. Sometimes called true fresco or buon fresco to distinguish it from painting over dry plaster, or "fresco secco". |
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Gesso |
A mixture of glue and chalk, thinned with waste and applied as a ground before painting with oil or egg tempera. Most gessoes are bright white in color. |
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Glaze |
In oil painting a thin transparent or translucent layer brushed over another layer of paint, allowing the first layer to show through but enriching its color slightly. In ceramics, a vitreous or glassy coating applied to seal and decorate surfaces. Glaze may be colored, transparent, or opaque. A silica-based paint for clay that fuses with the clay body on firing. Can be almost any color, or translucent. The silica based makes a glasslike surface on the clay piece. |
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Impasto |
In painting, thick paint applied to a surface in a heavy manner, having the appearance and consistency to buttery paste or of cake frosting. |
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Tempera |
A water-based paint that uses egg yolk as a binder. Many commercially made paints identified as tempera are actually gouache. |
