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Arts and Crafts Vocabulary

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  • To press or be pressed against something with a circular or up-and-down repeated movement.
    Rub
  • To mix or combine together.
    Blend
  • A set of actions that is the official or accepted way of doing something.
    Procedure
  • Any regularly repeated arrangement, especially a design made from repeated lines, shapes, or colours on a surface.
    Pattern
  • The things that can be seen behind the main things or people in a picture.
    Background
  • To move far apart in different directions.
    Scatter
  • To remove some or all of the edges from a picture, leaving only the most important part.
    Crop
  • A piece that has been cut off of something.
    Clipping
  • A mark with no particular shape that is caused, usually by accident, by rubbing something such as ink or a dirty finger across a surface.
    Smudge
  • The parts of a picture or painting that the artist has made slightly darker than the other parts.
    Shading
  • A diagram or chart; to mark or draw something on a piece of paper or map.
    Plot
  • A simple, quickly-made drawing that does not have many details.
    Sketch
  • A place from where a person can look at something.
    Viewpoint
  • Thick, heavy soil that is soft when wet, and hard when dry or baked.
    Clay
  • The pointed end of something, especially something that is long and thick.
    Tip
  • The space between two lines or surfaces at the point at which they touch each other, measured in degrees.
    Angle
  • Writing in a particular colour, style etc.
    Lettering
  • A line or mark made by a movement of a pen or pencil when writing or a brush when painting.
    Stroke
  • The quality of being thick; the distance from one side of something to the opposite side.
    Thickness
  • A type of painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects that do not move, such as flowers, fruit, bowls, etc.
    Still life