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Avignon Berry :: Avignon berry () The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry..

Aquarelle :: Aquarelle (n.) A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors..

Antique :: Antique (a.) In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases..

Portrait :: Portrait (n.) The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life..

Impression :: Impression (n.) In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like..

Fard :: Fard (v. t.) To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

Size :: Size (v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc..

Anorthoscope :: Anorthoscope (n.) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted..

Parget :: Parget (n.) Paint, especially for the face..

Aquarellist :: Aquarellist (n.) A painter in thin transparent water colors.

Powder :: Powder (v. i.) To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders..

Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint..

Altarpiece :: Altarpiece (n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture..

Plaque :: Plaque (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch..

Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..

Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing..

Keeping :: Keeping (n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln..

Board :: Board (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board..

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