Glossary Terms Archive - How To Create Art

Alla Prima

Alla Prima is a painting method, which involves working wet-on-wet. Colors are blended into each other while previous layers are still

Blanc de Meudon is A chalk taken from the quarries in Meudon, France. It is composed of 90% calcium carbonate as

A pre-polymerized oil that is made by heating oil in the presence of oxygen. It creates an oil that is

Calcium Carbonate is the mineral composition of chalk, CaCO3.

Chalk (powdered) is an umbrella term for numerous forms of powdered calcium carbonate that can be added to oil paint or

Chiaroscuro is a very dramatic lighting style which emphasizes strong light-dark contrasts. The works of Caravaggio and Ribera are good examples

Crazing is an effect created in paint when the upper layers dry, and shrink faster than the lower layers. This causes

The Dead Layer is a final, monochromatic. underpainting layer in the Flemish method. It is done in black, white, yellow, and grey.

Direct Painting is a painting method which involves using opaque colors painted-wet into wet. It can be built up in layers

Direct Painting is a painting technique in which the painting is completed in one opaque layer. Glazes and scumbles are