AQUAREL - A water-color painting.
AMATEUR - A lover of art. One also who practices art in an unprofessional way.
ALLEGORY - A painting possessed of a significance removed from the actual. Allegorical painting is somewhat literary in its character, an artistic interpretation of a parable, as it were.
ACCESSORIES - The natural and secondary objects introduced into a picture with an artistic purpose.
ACCENT - Any emphasis of light or dark in a picture.
BREADTH - The result attained in presenting an aspect of nature in a large and simple manner.
BALANCE - The proper disposition of quantities in a composition. See Quantity.
BLOOM - The cloudiness which affects certain colors and varnishes, and which is the result of damp.
BUST - The head and shoulders, including the breasts.
COMPOSITION - The disposition and arrangement of whatever objects and effects of light and shade go to make up the picture.
CARTOON - Derived from the Italian word cartone, signifying a heavy paper or cardboard upon which painters frequently made their first drawings or compositions before transferring them to the canvas or wall for which they were ultimately intended. A preparatory drawing on paper.
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