Calligraphy: Handwriting/penmanship, that is especially elegant or beautiful used as a decorative art.

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Cartoon: Cartoon, before it was made popular in the newspapers and early newsreels, was a full-size preliminary drawing that was made before a painting was created.

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Cezanne, Paul: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) was a French painter who was part of art movement called Post-Impressionism. Cezanne is credited with bridging the gap between the Impressionist movement and Cubism. His use of planes of color, and expansion of Divisionism, and his love of the 'pure shape' came through in his work and influenced an entire art movement.

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Charcoal: Charcoal is the burned remains of plant material. It comes in the form of sticks or in pencils. Charcoal is a black substance that is very soft and can be smudged and smeared in various forms. Charcoal is often used for quick drawings or as a basic outline to paintings. Charcoal and graphite repel each other and should not be used to try and blend into one drawing.

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Chiaroscuro: Curo-scuro. The balance of light and shadow in a painting or drawing. The use of good chiaroscuro is that the scene has accurate or dramatic lighting, having many medium highlights integrated into strong highlights and dark shadows. Chiaroscuro adds depth to the 2-D surface, creating the illusion of a 3-D space.

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Collage: A pictoral technique where the artist creates the image, or a portion of it, by securing real materials possessing texture to a flat surface, sometimes combining painted or drawn images.

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Color: The visual response to wavelengths of sunlight indentified as green, red, blue, etc.; having the physical properties of hue, intensity, and value.

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The color of an object is determined by what color the object reflects. If an object absorbs all light except for the yellow and blue spectrum, then we see the color as green. Those items that appear as white reflect all light; those items that appear as black absorb all light.

Please keep in mind that the visible spectrum is what human beings can see. Other organisms, like insects have the ability to see in other spectrums, like the ultraviolet spectrum, or the infa-red spectrum. Colors in these spectra are not the same as colors in our spectrum..

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Color Scheme: A color scheme is a planned combination of colors in a piece of art. An example of a planned color scheme can be seen in the painting, Ancient of Days. The entire painting is clothed in the same variations of oranges and yellows, clearly to express the glowing light of creation.

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Color Wheel: The Color Wheel is a circular diagram in which similar colors are sequentially placed next to each other and complementary colors are arranged opposite each other. Color wheels often include primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.

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Colored Pencils: Colored Pencils are wooden cylinders with cores filled with pigment and binders like cellulose gum. They are available in a variety of colors, starting in sets of 12, and work well when used to add pigment to a pencil drawing.

-L M Hornberger: Colored Pencil

Colors, Analogous: Analogous colors are colors that are closely related in hue or color. They are ususally adjacent to each other on the color wheel.

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Colors, Complementary: Complementary Colors are colors that are opposite to each other on the color wheel Examples include: blue and orange, violet and yellow, and red and green. Complementary colors enhance each other, causing high contrast and tension.

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Colors, Cool: Cool colors are colors that are dark in value, like blue, violet and green, that, when applied on the canvas, give the illusion of receding into the distance.

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Colors, Primary: Primary colors are colors that cannot be created using other colors. The three primary colors are red, blue and yellow.

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Colors, Secondary: Secondary colors are colors created from the three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow. Red and blue form violet, red and yellow form orange, and blue and yellow make green. A true or pure secondary color must have equal parts of two pure primary colors to create the pure secondary color. In practice, however, this may not be possible due to conflicting components in the physical substance.

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Colors, Triadic: Triadic color schemes use three colors from the color wheel that are separated in a triangular formation. Examples include the primary colors red, yellow, and blue, and the secondary colors green, violet, and orange.

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Colors, Warm: Warm colors are colors that, when used on a surface, appear to advance, like yellow, orange, and red.

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Content: The expression, essential meaning, significance, or aesthetic value of a work of art. Content refers to the sensory, subjective, psychological, or emotional properties we feel in a work of art.

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Cubism: Cubism is a painting style invented by Pablo Picasso and George Braque between 1907 and 1912. It uses multiple views of a subject to create three-dimensionality, while simultaneously acknowledging the two-dimensional surface from which it is created. This movement was highly influenced by Paul Cezanne's style of painting in the late 1800's.

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