Life Style / Painting Glossary

Hardboard: (also termed: Beaverboard, Masonite, Upson board) These boards are made from wood-pulp and/or waste paper. The front presents a smooth hard surface, the back having a textured tooth resembli . . . View Full Definition

Hardness: The level of pressure a material will withstand without becoming deformed or scratched.

Hardwood: Term for trees that have broad leaves (like oak, maple, ash, beech and walnut). Does not correlate to the actual hardness of the wood.

Heraldry: An art that dates back to the ancient custom of distinguishing nations, such as the Greeks and the Romans, military leaders and important officers by a badge on their shields. Later came exa . . . View Full Definition

Hiding Power: The ability of a paint to hide the previous surface or color.

Highlight: A point of intense brightness, such as the reflection in an eye.

Holdout: The ability of a paint film to dry to its normal finish on a somewhat absorptive surface.

Holidays: Voids in the dried paint film.

Hot Pressed: Hot pressed (HP) watercolour paper is pressed for an extremely smooth work surface. Excellent for mixed ink and watercolor techniques.

Hot Spots: Lime spots, which are not completely cured and bleed through the coating on a plastered wall.

Hue: This is the name of a colour within a spectrum colour. For example, Prussian Blue, Ultramarine Blue and Cerulean Blue are all blues which are close in hue. When describing close or similar c . . . View Full Definition

Impasto: 1. Thick application of pigment. 2. The pigment so applied. 3. The surface of the paint; any thick or well brush marked paint.

Impressionism: Loosely applied to a group of artists who purported to break up their color into pure dots of pigment to capture the rightness of pure color in nature. Instead of mixing their colors on the . . . View Full Definition

Imprimatura: A coat of colour that is applied over the priming. Many painters dislike working directly on white so this thin, lean veil of a tint such as red ochre, burnt umber, cool green is brushed on.

India Ink: 1. A black pigment made of lampblack and glue or size and shaped into cakes or sticks. 2. An ink made from this pigment.

Inert Pigment: A powdered paint additive that does not change the shade or hue, but extends or otherwise imparts a special working quality to the paint. Fillers are used in lower and student grade paints a . . . View Full Definition

Inhibitor: Material such as primer used to retard rusting or corrosion.

Intercoat Adhesion: The adhesion between two coats of paint.

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