Life Style / Painting Glossary

Bright: A brush with short-haired bristles.

Bristle: The working part of a brush containing natural bristles (usually hog hair) or artificial bristles (nylon or polyester).

Bristol Board: A stiff durable ply-produced cardboard suitable for pen and ink work or water-colour and gouache.

Broken Color: A color that is broken by another color.

Broken Colors: The unequal mixing of two complementary colors.

Brush Marks: Marks of brush that remain in the dried paint film.

Brush-Out: A technique sometimes used to influence a large sale that consists of brushing out a sample of paint onto a slab of wood or other material so the customer can see how the finished job will look.

Brushability: The ability or ease with which paint can be brushed.

Bubbles: Air bubbles in a drying paint film caused by excessive brushing during application or by over vigorous mixing that results in air trapment.

Build: Thickness or depth of a paint film.

Burning In: Repairing a finish by melting stick shellac into the damaged places by using a heated knife blade or iron.

Burnisher: An instrument to polish either a metal surface or other substance that will take it. It is either shaped from hardened steel or the semi-precious stone, agate. In the 15th century Cennini in . . . View Full Definition

Burnishing: Shiny areas on a painted surface achieved by rubbing or washing the surface.

Cabinet Pictures: An old-fashioned name for small easel paintings.

Calcimine: A water-thinned paint composed essentially of calcium carbonate or clay glue.

Camel Hair: Trade name for tail hair from various types of Russian squirrels. Used for signwriter, lacquering brushings and lettering quills.

Camera Lucida: An optical device which, by the use of a prism, makes it possible to copy an object. The rays of light from the model are reflected by the prism and produce an image on the paper. By adjusti . . . View Full Definition

Camera Obscura: Another optical copying device which is much larger than the lucida. It relies on the principle that rays of light will pass through a small lens in the side of a darkened cabinet and then b . . . View Full Definition

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