The use of a waxy medium to make a design over which a colored wash is spread.

The actual color of an object or surface, unaffected by shadow coloring, light quality or other factors.

The process in which a paint binder, under moist and alkaline conditions, becomes transparent or discolored.

A wooden chassis for textile supports that has rigid, immovable corners. Return to top

A chalk ground which absorbs oil and is used in oil painting to achieve a matt effect and to speed up drying.

A water dispersion of polymers or co-polymers of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, or acrylonitrile. Acrylic emulsions dry by evaporation of the water and film coalescence.

A solution of acrylic resin in a volatile solvent. Paints made with an acrylic solution binder resemble oil paints more than those made with acrylic emulsion binders.

Color that results from the mixture of two or more colored lights, the visual blending of separate spots of transmitted colored light.

Synthetic resin used in paints and mediums. As a medium Liquin from Winsor and Newton works as a binder that encapsulates the pigment and speeds the drying time. In Paints W&N Griffith paints are [..]

Technique in which the final surface of a painting is completed in one sitting, without under painting. Italian for "at the first".