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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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hand enhanced by artist
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Some paper or canvas editions include brushstrokes done by hand by the artist. These additions enhance both the look and value of the work.
hue
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The name of the color, such as red, green or yellow. Hue can be measured as a location on a color wheel, and expressed in degrees; the main attribute of a color which ...
horizontal balance
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The components that are balanced left and right of a central axis.
gouache
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A type of watercolor paint, made heavier and more opaque by the addition of a white pigment (chalk, Chinese white, etc.) in a gum arabic mixture. This results in a stronger color ...
giclee
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A giclee (zhee-clay) is an elegant, state-of-the-art reproduction that gives a vibrant color rendition of an original painting. Giclee, a French printmaker's term for "sprayed", ...
gesso
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A mixture of plaster, chalk, or gypsum bound together with a glue which is applied as a ground or coating to surfaces in order to give them the correct properties to receive ...
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