Life Style / Painting Glossary

Wet-In-Wet: A technique used in painting in which the colours flow together. There's a risk of creating a muddy look when painting in this manner. Many brilliant masterworks have been painted using this . . . View Full Definition

Wet-On-Dry: Painting over a dry layer of paint. It's much easier to control than wet-in-wet. Most acrylic painters use this technique.

Wet-On-Wet: The technique of painting wet color into a wet surface .(paper saturated

Wetting Agent: A liquid to be added in small amounts to water-colour to reduce the surface tension and thus increase the flow of the colours. Oxgall has been the traditional agent, but now synthetic prepar . . . View Full Definition

Wire Brushing: Cleaning a surface with a wire brush, or wire power brush.

Withering: Withering a loss of gloss is sometimes caused by varnishing open-pore woods without filling pores, use of improper undercoating or applying top coat before undercoat has dried.

Wood Filler: There are two kinds of fillers-paste and liquid. Paste fillers are something like a very thick paint and are composed of some solid powdered substance, usually silica or powdered quartz, mix . . . View Full Definition

Wooden Panels: Up till the 15th century and the coming of canvas nearly all the portable paintings in Europe were executed on wooden panels. The Flemish and the French painters preferred oak, the Italians . . . View Full Definition

Wove Paper: A paper showing even texture and thickness when held to light. Created with a very fine netting, a uniform, smooth texture results. Often used in fine writing and calligraphy, archival quali . . . View Full Definition

Wrinkling: Development of ridges and furrows in a paint film when the paint dries.

Yellowing: Development of a yellow color or cast in white, a pastel, colored or clear finishes.

Zinc Chromate: Rust-inhibiting pigment, greenish-yellow in color that is used with a high-hiding pigment.

Zinc Oxide: Substance used as a white pigment for high-hiding power hardness and gloss. Reduces yellowing, increases drying; provides resistance to sulfur fumes and mildew. Used with linseed oil for sel . . . View Full Definition

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