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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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chine colle
Arts & crafts; Fine art
is a sort of collage technique used in intaglio printing whereby a (usually thinner) piece of paper is adhered to a heavier sheet and printed simultaneously.
canvas print
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A reproduction in which an image is printed directly onto canvas. These prints can be produced using offset lithography, digital printing or other methods. Sometimes artists ...
canvas transfer
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A reproduction in which inks are chemically lifted off a piece of paper and applied to a piece of canvas. Some processes can replicate the texture and appearance of an original ...
brushwork
Arts & crafts; Fine art
The distinctive technique in which an artist uses to apply paint with a brush onto a medium, such as canvas.
calligraphy
Arts & crafts; Fine art
a distinctive style of artistic handwriting created by using special pen nibs that allow a calligrapher to vary the thickness of a letter's line elements; an elegant, decorative ...
bright artist brushbright brush
Arts & crafts; Fine art
Refers to a brush that has the same shape as a "flat" however the hairs are not as long as those on the flat brush. (see illustration.)
bristol board
Arts & crafts; Fine art
A high quality heavy weight drawing paper, sometimes made with cotton fiber prepared or glued together, usually with a caliper thickness of 0.006" and up, used for many types of ...
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