Fine art

Fine art

Of, or pertaining to the creation of, any visual art that was considered to have been created for purely aesthetic purposes.

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Vermilion

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Scarlet red, a variable colour that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge.

Vanishing point

Arts & crafts; Fine art

In perspective, the point on the horizon in the distance where two lines seem to converge and visibility ends.

Value

Arts & crafts; Fine art

The lightness or darkness of a color; contrasts between light and dark.

Ultramarine

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A vivid blue to purple-blue pigment originally made from ground lapis lazuli. French ultramarine is an artificial substitute.

Bristol board

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A high quality heavy weight drawing paper, sometimes made with cotton fibre prepared or glued together, usually with a calliper thickness of 0.006" and up, used for many types of two-dimensional ...

Printing using an uninked plate to produce the subtle embossed texture of a white-on-white image, highlighted by the shadow of the relief image on the uninked Paper. This technique is used in many ...

Bitmap image

Arts & crafts; Fine art

A pixel-based image (.bmp) with one bit of colour information per pixel, also known as a bitmapped image. The only colours displayed in a bitmapped image are black and white. Its quality decreases ...