Painting Techniques

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• Which painting technique involves applying thick layers of paint so that brushstrokes remain visibly raised on the…
• What is the primary purpose of an underpainting in a layered painting?
• Which technique creates a soft, broken layer by lightly dragging relatively dry paint over the texture of the surface?
• In oil painting, what is glazing?
• In [____] painting, the artist completes the work in a single session while the paint remains wet.
• Artists use [____] to create a monochromatic study of light and shadow before adding full color.
• A painter can soften the boundary between two wet colors by using the technique known as [____].
• In [____], small separate dots or touches of pure color are placed next to one another so the eye visually blends them.