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| The means by which atmospheric illustration is created. |
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| An emphatically stated line. |
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| Colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel. |
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| Various challenges to linear perspective by artist who intentionally subvert its traditional conventions. |
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| The Imaginary line on which an object sits. |
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| a contour exercise in which the artist never looks at the paper |
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| smudged, erased, or destroyed line |
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| free-flowing line that resembles hand writing, making use of gradual and graceful transitions. |
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| one of the six categories of light |
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| visual assessment of the quality if light that is determined by its spectral composition. |
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| The organization or arrangement of the elements of art in a given work. |
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| The subject matter of a work of art, including its emotional, intellectual, symbolic, thematic, and narrative connotations, which together give the work its total meaning. |
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| a drawing in which the implement remains in uninterrupted contact with the picture plane, creation enclosed shapes. |
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| line that delineates both the outside edge of an object and the edges of planes, as opposed to outline, which delineates only the outside edge of an object. |
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| a drawing that emphasizes single, clean, incisive lines that define shapes. |
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| line that describes an object's horizontal or cross contours rather than its vertical contours. Cross-contour line emphasizes the volumetric aspects of an object. |
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| creating value with sets of parallel lines that cross each other. |
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| a build up of marks creating volume, mass, or weight. |
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| the principal graphic and plastic devices by which an artist composes a physical work of art. The elements are color, line, shape, value, and volume. |
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| an imaginary horizontal line parallel to the viewers eye's. |
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| producing the illusion of a object's extension into space by contracting it's form. |
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| duplicates movement of the eyes, quickly defining the subjects general characteristics-movement, weight, shape, tension, scale, and proportion. |
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| a category of objective drawing, including diagrammatic, architectural, and mechanical drawing. Informational drawing clarifies concepts and ideas that may not be actually visible, such as a chemist's drawings of a molecular structure. |
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