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• Canvas

  - Fabrics that are prepared for painting. Available in panels, stretched on frames, or obtained by the yard.

• Ceramics

  - Used to describe the shaping, finishing and firing of clay.

• Charcoal and Conte Crayon

  - In stick form, both give you a very strong, dark line. A disadvantage to these crayons is that they break easily and tend to smudge. Can be found is stick form as well.

• Chop

  - An impression made by the artist, or by the printer seal.

• Chroma

  - This is the intensity, or strength, or purity of a color. Squeezing paint directly from the tube to the palette is 'full chroma'.

• Cibachrome

  - A process where a photographic print can be made directly from a color transparency.

• Coil method in clay

  - As one of the oldest methods used in the formation of pottery, long strands of clay are laid on top of one another, joined by blending the coils together.

• Collage

  - Collage is from the French meaning "paste up". The combination of pieces of cloth, magazines and other found objects to create artwork. 

• Collograph

  - This name is derived from the word 'collage'. It is an image built up with glue and other materials.

• Complementary Colors

  - two hues directly across one another on the color wheel. The complement of each primary is the secondary created by mixing the other two primaries (red-green; blue-orange; yellow-violet). When placed near each other, complementary colors tend to vibrate.

• Complementary Colors

  - Complementary colors are those which appear opposite to one another on a color wheel. The complimentary colors are red and green, blue and orange, and yellow and purple.

• Composition

  - The arrangement of lines, colors and form. 

• Conte

  - The modern pencil lead invented by Nicolas Conte. It is a black, red or brown chalk.

• Contour Drawing

  - Contour drawing shows the outline of the subject, and not the volume or mass of an object. Blind contour drawings are those created by looking only at the subject, and not the paper while drawing.

• Contrast

  - Contrast is created by using opposites near or beside one another, such as a light object next to a dark object or a rough texture next to a smooth texture. 

• Crackle glaze

  - Tiny cracks in the glaze to decorate. Often rubbed in with coloring material.

• Crazing

  - Crazing is the fine cracks that occur on the glaze.

• Curved

  - ines are curly and express movement such as ~~~~~