Across
- 1. The outline or edge of a figure or object. In contour drawing, a single, continuous line is used to draw the outline of an object.
- 4. CLAY/A low-fire clay, with maturation usually between 850 and eleven hundred degrees centigrade.
- 5. READY Type of art that has been completely prepared with carefully marked instructions for the printer. A mechanical is camera ready.
- 7. WHEEL A circle divided into sections of different colors. It shows how colors can be mixed or used together.
- 8. BRUSH Technique in which a brush drags or skims undiluted paint over the surface of a painting so that the paint is left only on raised points, to create a broken effect.
Down
- 1. COLORS Colors that are opposites on the color wheel and contrast with each other. For example, orange is the complement of blue, violet is the complement of yellow, etc. When two complementary colors are mixed together, they make brown or gray. When they are used side by side in a work of art, they create interesting contrasts. Adding a little of a color's complement to it makes it duller.
- 2. COLORS Colors found naturally in the environment.
- 3. To copy a solid object by pouring a liquid, such as melted metal, clay, wax or plaster, into a mold and letting it harden. The mold is then removed and a copy, or cast, is left in the shape of the mold.
- 5. To cut away unwanted parts from a block of wood, stone or other material, using carving tools such as a chisel, knife or file. Carving is a way of making sculpture by cutting away unwanted parts.
- 6. SIZE Depth of the body of a piece of type measured in points.