Life Style / Painting Glossary

Canvas Board: A heavy cardboard with a cotton or linen canvas glued to one side, with the edges folded over to the back. The face is primed in the same manner as an Academy board.

Caricature: Art that exaggerates the qualities, defects, or peculiarities of a person or idea, usually in a humourous manner. Traditionally used in editorial cartooning. Example Honoré Daumier.

Carnation: An obsolete term which described the rosy pink, flesh colour of a female portrait.

Carpenters Pencil: A graphite pencil that features a flat ovoid wooden grip surrounding a wide graphite core capable of creating chiseled thick and thin pencil lines. Used for sketching and drawing. Must be ha . . . View Full Definition

Cartoon: A preparatory sketch or design that is then transferred to the final work surface.

Casein: A milk protein used as a binder for casein colours. It is prepared by drying the curd from sour milk, then grinding it into a yellowish powder. Casein is only water-soluble in the presence o . . . View Full Definition

Cassone: An Italian word for the marriage coffer. In the Renaissance period it was the fashion to have painted cassoni. Florence led with this vogue, and artists who decorated them included Botticell . . . View Full Definition

Cast Shadow: The dark area that results when the source of light has been intercepted by an object.

Catalyst: An ingredient that speeds up a chemical reaction; sometimes used in two component paint systems.

Caulking: A semi or slow drying plastic material used to seal joints or fill crevices around windows, chimneys, trim, joints, etc.

Caulking Compound: A semidrying or slow drying plastic material used to seal joints or fill crevices around windows, chimneys.

Ceramics: Small ceramic platters, round, oval, square and rectangular have been used by some painters, either working on miniatures or pictures up to a maximum over all of about 12 in (300 mm). The to . . . View Full Definition

Chalking: The formation of a loose powder or the surface of paint after exposure to the elements.

Chalks: Sticks of prepared calcium carbonate left white and either used as a drawing material on a dark-tinted paper, or for heightening a wash or pen and ink drawing.

Charcoal: One of the oldest drawing materials, charred sticks were used with the early cave-paintings. The Romans used them and throughout the history of art the material crops up again and again. It . . . View Full Definition

Checking: A kind of paint failure in which many small cracks appear in the surface of the paint.

Chiaroscuro: 1) The rendering of light and shade in painting; the subtle gradations and marked variations of light and shade for dramatic effect. 2) The style of painting light within deep shadows. Carri . . . View Full Definition

Chroma: The purity or degree of saturation of a color; relative absence of white or gray in a color.

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