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Term Details
Term:	paint
Subcategory:	General
Definition:	Pigment held in suspension within a liquid.

Referring Terms

Glaze Palette pigment substractive color tinting strength toned support or ground transparency Art Deco faux painting flat paint corrosion sandblasting in-the-white Animation Art Cel Animation Background Drawing Limited Edition Hand Painted Cel One of One Production Background Absorbent Ground Acrylic Solution Alkyd Alla Prima ASTM Binder Body Color Brushwork Canvas Cartoon (mural) Collage Composition Dispersion Diluents Copal Dead Color Designer Colors Distemper Drier Emulsion Encaustic Fat Filler Film Fresco Gesso Grissaille Gum Arabic Impasto Imprimatura Key Lean Loom State Matiere Marouflage Masstone Mixed Media Mural Pentimento Pigments Plasticizer Plein Air Primer PVA Resins Saponification Scumbling Secco White Spirits Wetting Agent Wet on Wet Water Tension Breaker Study Support Tempera Toner Tooth Traction Tragacanth Tromple L’oeil Vehicle Venice Turpentine Verdaccio Volume Watercolor Acrylic Eggshell Paint Acrylic Acrylic Primer Aging Base Coat Casein Paint Combing Crackle Glaze Dead Flat Oil Distemper (paint) Eggshell Gloss Limewash Matte Emulsion Matte Emulsion Glaze Metallic Emulsion Silk Emulsion Oil-based Paint Primers Satinwood Scumble Glaze Specialist Finish Undercoat Lining Paper Abstract Expressionism Dry Brush The Ashcan School Blaue Reiter Group of Seven Hudson River School Impressionism Mannerism Medieval Art Gothic Minimalism Modernism Optical Art Pop Art Neo Expressionism Post-Impressionism Pre-Raphaelites Realism Rococo Daylight Spool Romanticism Surrealism Mass Marketed Art Original Fourdrinier Hand Embellished Lightfastness RGB Convergence Drawing Figure Gradation Local Value Mass (drawing/painting) Mark (drawing) Massing Middle Ground Negative Space Outline Overlapping Planes Picture Plane Proportion Scale (proportion) Sighting Space (drawing) Surface 2D Space / Two Dimensional Space 3D Space / Three Dimensional Space Bit-mapped All-over Space / All Over Space Broken Color Camera Obscura Color Field Painting Color perception / Seeing color Indienne


Acrylic paint samples.

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