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Encaustic :: Encaustic (a.) The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors..

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..

Predella :: Predella (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece..

Rood :: Rood (n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

Amateur :: Amateur (n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally..

Water Deck :: Water deck () A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse.

Paint :: Paint (v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well..

Tone :: Tone (n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone..

Form :: Form (n.) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body..

Underglaze :: Underglaze (a.) Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting..

Unpaint :: Unpaint (v. t.) To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting..

Sublittoral :: Sublition (n.) The act or process of laying the ground in a painting.

Tempera :: Tempera (n.) A mode or process of painting; distemper.

Retouch :: Retouch (n.) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like..

Lettering :: Lettering (n.) The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting..

Sgraffito :: Sgraffito (a.) Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath..

Fresco :: Fresco (a.) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries..

Tablature :: Tablature (n.) A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general..

Brooch :: Brooch (n.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting..

Varnish :: Varnish (n.) To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting..

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