Life Style / Painting Glossary

Sal Soda: Crystallized sodium carbonate. It is used for making cleaning solutions to remove grease and grime from old painted surfaces.

Sand Finish: Rough finish plaster wall.

Sand-Painting: (also termed: sand mosaic, sand altar, earth picture, ground-painting) A rather odd method of pictorial expression first practised by the North American Indians, especially the Navaho. The p . . . View Full Definition

Sanding Surfaces: A heavily pigmented finishing material used for building the surface to a smooth condition. It is sanded after drying.

Saturation: The greatest possible intensity of the color.

Scorper: A solid metal tool with a square or rounded end used for clearing out non-printing areas on a wood-block.

Scraper: An etching and engraving tool, triangular in section, which is used to remove burrs or unwanted roughnesses, also to slightly lower areas for subtle grading.

Scraperboard: A cardboard that is covered with plaster, white clay or chalk mixed with glue. It may be left white or black. It was introduced during the 19th century. The artist can work on it with nib-li . . . View Full Definition

Scrubbability: The ability of a paint film to withstand scrubbing and cleaning with water, soap and other household cleaning agents.

Scumble: A Scumble is a semi opaque or opaque colour applied thinly over a darker colour. Like glazing, Scumbling is transparent, which is optically mixed with the colour under it to produce a third colour.

Sealer: A thin liquid applied to seal a surface, to prevent previous paint from bleeding through from the surface or to prevent undue absorption of the topcoat into the substrate.

Secondary Colors: Colors obtained by mixing two primary colors green, violet, and orange.

Seeds: Small, undesirable particles or granules other than dust found in paint, varnish or lacquer.

Self-Cleaning: An exterior paint designed to chalk quickly to maintain a clean appearance.

Semi-Gloss: Having a luster between full and flat.

Semi-Transparent: A degree of hiding greater than transparent but less than opaque.

Semi-Transparent Stain: A stain that alters the natural color of the wood while allowing the grain and texture to show through.

Set Up: A film that has dried so that it is firm is said to have 'set up'.

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