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| Pens |
Usually the use of technical drawing pens produce a sharp line that never varies in width. They come in a range of colours, and widths which create different effects
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| Perspective |
Perspective creates the feeling of depth through the use of lines that make your image appear to be three dimentional. The closer the image is, the more detailed it will appear, and the larger it will be
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| Pigment |
Pigment is the material used to create the effect of colour on any surface
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| Pinch Pots |
Beginning with a ball of clay, the artist can form a pot by pinching the clay to form the centre opening
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| Plaster |
When mixed with water, this powder will harden into a chalk-like solid used to create sculptures, and other forms of artwork
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| Porcelain |
Porcelain is a combination of kaolin, silica and feldspar. You can work with porcelain as you would clay, but when you fire it correctly, the result will be similar to that of glass
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| Primary Colours |
Blue, Red and Yellow
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| Raku |
This method of firing pottery results in irregular surfaces and colours. The pottery is removed when it is red hot. It is then placed in a bed of combustible materials and covered
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| Reduction |
Firing clay with an inadequate amount of oxygen
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| Repetition |
Repetition is created when objects, shapes, space, light, direction, lines etc. are repeated in artwork
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| Rhythm |
When the regular repetition of particular forms or elements occurs in a work of art, that work is said to have rhythm. It suggests motion
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| Secondary Colours |
Orange, Violet, Green. Each colour is midway between the Primaries from which it can be mixed
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| Shade |
Using a mixture of black mixed with a colour to make it darker. The opposite of shade is tint
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| Shape |
Shapes can be in the form of squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, and ovals
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| Silver Print |
The generic term covers all prints made on paper that is coated with silver salts. Black and white photographs are usually silver prints
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| Slab built |
Clay slabs are cut into shape, and joined together with scoring and wet clay called slip
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| Slip |
Liquid form of clay. Slip is used to fill in pores, and even out the colour. Slip is used to join clay
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| Spectrum |
colours that are the result of a beam of white light that is broken by a form of prism into its hues
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| Stencil |
Process in which an area is cut out of paper, or material such as cardboard to enable paint or ink to be applied to a piece of paper, or canvas through the cutout
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| Stoneware |
Sturdier then earthenware, stoneware is waterproof even without being glazed
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