Life Style / Painting Glossary

Pigments: Paint ingredients mainly used to impart color and hiding power.

Pihnole: Very small holes in paint film, usually not deep enough to show undercoat.

Plaster Of Paris: A quick setting, pure white powder, used to set bathroom wall fixtures such as towel racks or used by craft groups for pouring molds and making plaster objects.

Pochade: A rapid rough sketch of a landscape executed out-of-doors from nature; generally it is the intention that it should act as a guide for working up a larger, more finished picture.

Polychrome: Poly=many, chrome or chroma=colours. Can refer to artwork made with bright, multi-coloured paint.

Polyptych: A single work comprised of multiple sections, panels, or canvas. Diptych= two, triptych=three.

Polyurethane: Wide range of coatings, ranging from hard gloss enamels to soft flexible coatings. Good to very good adhesion, hardness, flexibility and resistance. Surface preparation critical.

Polyurethane Varnish: A clear, alkyd coating.

Polyvinyl Acetate: A synthetic resin largely used as a vehicle for many latex paints. Often referred to as PVA.

Positive Space: The areas of an artwork that IS the primary subject or object. Positive Space defines the subjects outline.

Pot Life: Amount of time after mixing a two-part paint system during which it can be applied.

Pounce Bag: Used to dust pounced drawings. To make a pounce bag place a small wad of cotton balls in the middle of a coarsely woven square rag (a pink shop rag works well) and add a couple tablespoons o . . . View Full Definition

Pounce Wheel: A metal pencil-like tool that has a toothed wheel that freely rotates on the drawing end. The teeth puncture an evenly spaced series of small holes through the paper as you trace a line. Use . . . View Full Definition

Primary Colors: Red, yellow, and blue, the mixture of which will yield all other colors in the spectrum but which themselves cannot be produced through a mixture of other colors.

Prime: To make ready. The preparatory coating.

Primer: A first coat of paint applied in order to inhibit corrosion and provide adhesion between the substrate and subsequent coats of paint.

Propellant: The gas used to expel materials from aerosol containers.

Putty: Doughlike mixture of pigment and oil used to set glass in window frames and to fill nail holes and cracks.

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