15 Beginner Art Terms!

Art lingo can sometimes be confusing, especially when talking to a professional artist. But have no fear! I have made a very basic list to get your artistic talking a-flowing!

Composition- The arrangement of the Art piece- The way it is made up.
Complimentary Colors- Colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel.
Hue- Another word for Color or Shade.
Tint- Contrary to car window tints, a Tint in the art world is actually the lightening of a color- adding a light color.
Shade- This is what Car Tinting should be called- a darker color.
Medium- What the art is made of ie.) Oil Paint, Colored Pencil, Graphite etc...
Media- The plural form of Medium.
Tooth- The roughness of paper.
Cold Press Paper- During the paper-making process they use a "cold" press causing the paper to stick to the press making a "toothier" paper.
Hot Press Paper- They use a "hot" press making a smoother paper with less tooth.
Stippling- A style of rendering made up of many tiny dots to make shades.
Hatching- A style of rendering using parallel lines to make shades.
Cross Hatching- A style of rendering using intersecting sets of parallel lines to make shades.
Scumbling- A style of rendering using random movements of the pencil, usually circles or spirals, to make shades.
Rendering- The building up of shades/colors making an image.
Wash- A transparent layer of paint, ink, etc... (gave you one extra because I like you!)

Post THREE of SEVEN is done! It was definitely a short one today but it has been a long day filled with work, school, and cleaning house. Thanks for keeping up with the blog challenge, I appreciate it! Again, I encourage anyone who would like to join in the challenge to do so and to share your posts with me (I would love to read them <3!)

Thanks for reading and I will see you tomorrow!