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Acrylic	Waterbased painting medium that dries soluable. Available as paint and as an ingredient in water soluable finishes.
Alkyd	A paint thinner soluable painting medium made from synthetic resins. A quick drying synthetic oil paint.
Boxing	Method of mixing paint for uniformity by pouring it back and forth from one container to another.
Cartoon	See also,Thumbnail; a prepatory design or drawing used as a model by painters.
Chroma	The "colourfulness" of colour or how much pigment a colour contains.
Dab hand	An accomplished individual's artistic style; as in "having a dab hand."
Eggshell	A finish with a low degree of gloss resembling that of an egg's shell. A sheen between flat and satin.
Emulsion	General term used to describe paint.
Faux	A French term loosely defined as simulation of a real substance. Simulating wood called, faux bois; simulating marble called, faux marbre.
Finish coats	Also called, clear coat(s); a protective varnish applied as the last coat in the painting process. Finish coat(s) may be water or paint thinner soluable.
Flat	Also called, matte; a finish with no sheen.
Glaze	A translucent film of colour made from paint media. Also used to refer to the media itself.
Glaze medium	A proprietary paint thinner or water soluable medium used to make opaque pigments transluscent.
Glazing technique	Techniques done by manipulating transluscent media over a dry surface, creating unlimited visual effects.
Gloss	Hightest greade of sheen; shiny finish.
Grisaille	Painted decoration done in monochrome tones.
Holiday	An area that is inadvertently skipped during the application of a liquid.
Hue	The family name of a colour according to its wavelength on the visual spectrum.
Media/medium	The liquid that binds pigments together and holds them to a surface. It is also used to refer to a particular liquid substance in a process or technique.
Monochrome	Colour harmony resulting from the use of a singe scale of hue.
Mural	A work of art such as a painting applied to a wall or ceiling, etc.
Oil paint	Paint in which the vehicle is a slow drying oil, such as linseed oil.
Opacity	One who paints either as an artist or as a worker.
Perspective	The technique of representing three dimensional objects and depth relationships on a two dimension surface.
Pigments	Insoluable powders that are suspended in liquid (a vehicle) to make a paint or glaze medium. Pigments can be organic (from animal or vegetable sources) or inorganic (from mineral sources). They give a medium opacity and colour.
Satin	Any finish with a finish between flat and gloss.
Scumble	A glazing technique rendered by scrubbing glazing liquid/paint to a surface (walls, ceilings, etc.) with a paint brush.
Shade	Any hue plus black.
Tint	Any hue plus white.
Tinting colours	Colourisers, pigments used in altering hues of all types of paint media.
Thumbnail	A sketch or drawing, "cartoon" used as conceptual rendering tool.
Trompe l'oeil	A French term meaning "deceive the eye". A technique in which an illusion of depth is create by using painted light and shadows.
Value	The amount of light and dark in a hue.
Watercolour	A thin water based painting medium that is made up of pigment, gum arabic, glycerin and water.
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