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Stereoelectric :: Stereochromy (n.) A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda)..

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

Specimen :: Specimen (n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art..

Painture :: Painture (v. t.) The art of painting.

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..

Portraiture :: Portraiture (n.) Pictures, collectively; painting..

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

Canvas :: Canvas (n.) Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas..

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..

Gradate :: Gradate (v. t.) To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize..

Grouping :: Grouping (n.) The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design..

Monochromy :: Monochromy (n.) The art of painting or drawing in monochrome.

Depainting :: Depainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depain.

Potboiler :: Potboiler (n.) A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living..

Lithochromics :: Lithochromics (n.) The art of printing colored pictures on canvas from oil paintings on stone.

Raphaelesque :: Raphaelesque (a.) Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

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

Waterwork :: Waterwork (n.) Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry..

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

Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms..

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