It's This week's word is pigment: compounds used to create the colour of art materials eg: paint. Can be organic (plants, animals), inorganic (minerals), or synthetic.
IMAGE: The Unvarnished Truth exhibition, 2015
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2020-04-01

It's acrylic paint: a fast drying, versatile, water-based paint popularized in the 1960s.
IMAGE: William Perehudoff (Canadian, 1919-2013), Andante AC 76 1976, Acrylic on canvas, Gift of Mr. A. Hugh Clark

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2019-10-17

It's Contrast: principle of art juxtaposing elements to explore differences/create interest/achieve balance.
A. Colville (Canadian, b 1920) Ravens at the Dump, 1965, serigraph, Purchased with funds from the Mary E. Hatch Bequest, in memory of Clifton W. Sherman

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2019-01-10

It's Watercolour: can refer to the type of paint and finished painting itself.
IMAGE: York Wilson (1907-1984) Aztec Country (Mexico) 1981, watercolour on paper. Gift of the York Wilson Foundation for the Visual Arts © York Wilson Foundation for the Visual Arts

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2018-11-22

It's and this week's word is intaglio: a print where the design is created by scraping away areas+inserting ink within the grooves created.
IMAGE: William Hogarth (1697-1764) False Perspective, 1753, etching on paper, On loan from Dundurn National Historic Site

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2018-08-08

It's and this week's word is simultaneous narrative: when more than one part of the story is happening at once in one artwork.
IMAGE: Pieter Coecke van Aelst, “A Triptych: The Holy Family with an Angel Offering Fruit”, 1530-32, Levy Bequest Purchase.

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2018-08-01

This week's word is
hatching + crosshatching: hatching is a set of parallel lines that suggest shading +shape. Crosshatching is when these lines overlap each other perpendicularly.
IMAGE: D. Campagnola, The Beheading of St. Catherine, 1517, Levy Bequest Purchase

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2018-04-11