ROSE GARDEN & Art Lingo

ROSE GARDEN
Watercolor - 11x14

Artists are famous for their creative lingo and for us it sounds perfectly normal. For someone on the outside, maybe not!
  • The watercolorist keeps graduation in mind when she does her wash
  • The color painter often loses her values
  • The pastelist is careful not to damage her tooth when she rubs her stump across it
  • The pen-and-ink artist is extremely appreciative of an outstanding nib
  • The plein air artist believes in squinting
  • The oil painter likes to lay it on fat-over-lean to keep the push/pull effect happening
  • An airbrush artist whittles carefully for hours on her masking then it throws away