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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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condottiere
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Until the mid-fifteenth century, condottieri were mercenary leaders in the employ of Italian city-states.
collage
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Collage is from the French meaning "paste up". The combination of pieces of cloth, magazines and other found objects to create artwork.
chromolithography
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A color-printing process in which separate printing plates are used to apply each component color. Often called "four-color printing because the full range of color tones are ...
collograph
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Printing technique in which proofs are pulled back from a block on which the artwork or design is built up like a collage, creating a relief.
coated paper
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Paper manufactured with a thin surface coating of clay. This coating produces an extremely sharp, finely detailed image because it prevents ink from penetrating the paper fibers.
charcoal and conte crayon
Arts & crafts; Fine art
In stick form, both give you a very strong, dark line. A disadvantage to these crayons is that they break easily and tend to smudge. Can be found is stick form as well.
chiaroscuro
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The term chiaroscuro refers to the fine art painting modeling effect of using a strong contrast between light and dark to give the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality. This ...
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