Genre: A style or category of art; a type of painting that depicts realistic scenes from everyday life.

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Gesso: Plaster mixed with a binding material and used for reliefs as a ground for painting. The most common form of gesso found in stores is Acrylic Gesso, used to coat canvas and other surfaces so that paint can adhere to the surface without crumbling.

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Gouache: A painting technique that uses pigments ground in water. It is a type of opaque watercolor.

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Graphic Art: Graphic art can be relayed as two-dimensional art forms like drawing, painting, or printmaking; two-dimensional use of the elements; or it can be the techiniques of printing used in newspapers, books, magazines, etc.

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Graphite: Silvery substance used to make pencil leds. Graphite also can be used in powder form. Graphite pencils come in many different hardnesses, the hard leds have numbers followed by the letter H and the soft pencils have a number followed by the letter B. The led that straddles the two hardnesses is an HB. It is a medium hardness.

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Grisaille: A monochrome painting done in neutral grays to simulate sculpture.

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Ground: A coating applied to a canvas or some other surface to prepare that surface for painting.

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