Foundations in Painting
Perspective 
- The picture plane - the two dimensional
surface on which the image is drawn
- Illusion of depth (picture plane as a sheet of glass)
- Vertical
Perspective
- Objects placed higher on the picture plane tend to appear "further
away"
- Foreground vs background
- Overlapping
Perspective
- Objects placed in front of other objects will obscure them
- Size Perspective
- Objects proportions are reduced to imply distance
- Smaller objects tend to appear further away
- Foreshortening
- Objects drawn with parallel lines so as to converge toward a vanishing
point
- to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not
parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of
depth
- Atmospheric
Perspective
- An attempt by the artist to take the atmosphere into account when
depicting distant objects
- Lack of detail and blurring effect
- Shift of the color toward the cool end of the spectrum
Color and Light
- Hue
- The property of color
- Cool colors and their tendency to recede
- Warm colors and their tendency to project
- Value
- The property of light and dark
- Low (darkness) VsHigh (lightness) value
- Shading to lower value VsTinting to raise value
- Modeling
- Gradual changes or gradations in values
- Usually referencing the uneven appearance of light on objects such
as drapery, surfaces, etc
- Flat color
- The absence of modeling on a broad area
- No changes of values over an extended area
Paint Applications
- Opaque
- Paint applied without translucence
- The under-painted surface is completely obscured
- Glaze
- Liquefied paint so as to allow the under-painted surface to shine through
- Translucence of light and its effect on resulting color
- Impasto
- Paint that is the consistency of a think paste
- Directly, or nearly so applied from the tube
- Scumbling
- Opaque paint applied to a textured surface so as to not completely obscure
the under-painted surface
Humanities
Resource of Mark Hunter