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Arts & crafts
Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.
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portrait
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
A portrait in sculpture comprises of the head only or head and neck. Compare with Bust.
realistic
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Sculpture is dubbed realistic when it portrays real life objects or people or recognizable, identifiable shapes. In general, the term used for the depiction of human figures, real ...
relief
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
In sculpture, any work that projects from the background. Reliefs are classified by degree of projection. Relief sculpture is distinguished from sculpture in the round. In a bas ...
sculpt
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
The process of creating what is described in the next entry... Also see the links there as all 4 main methods apply when defining the verb "to sculpt"!
sculpture
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Artform, 3-D or three dimensional - created in the round which can be seen from all perspectives except the bottom or back (when it is resting or placed down or against a surface, ...
slab building
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Clay slabs are cut to shape and joined together using scoring and wet clay called slip. Slabs can be draped over or into forms, rolled around cylinders or built-up into geometric ...
mixed media
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
The term is generally used when two or more media are used in a single work of art, e.g. metal and wood, or metal, wood and stone. Mixed media include plastics, fibres, and any ...
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