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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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matting
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Decorative board used in framing that provides contrast between the image and the molding.
linocut
Arts & crafts; Fine art
An image cut into the surface of linoleum, usually, mounted on a block of wood. The surface is then inked, wiped, and the image transferred to paper by pressure.
life drawing
Arts & crafts; Fine art
drawings of a human figure. Usually of nude figures so that the artist can understand how the muscles look and how light, tone and shadow reflect around the body.
issue price
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The original price of a limited edition print when first offered for retail sale.
international editions
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A series of prints/canvas that are distributed outside the country where the artist resides.
intensity
Arts & crafts; Fine art
This term is used to describe the brightness, or the dullness of a color.
image size
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The physical dimensions of an image, not counting the white border around the image.
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