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Art in words archival image - An image meant to have lasting utility. An archival digital image is generally an image kept off-line in a safe place, and it's often of higher quality than the digital image delivered to the user. contemporary - Current, belonging to the same period of time. Usually referring to our present time, but can refer to being current with any specified time. "Contemporary Plein Air Artist" means the artist is still living. giclée - (pronounced gee-clay') French for "spray of ink." An Iris Ink jet print on watercolor paper or canvas is known as a giclée. In the giclée process, a fine stream of ink, more than four million droplets per second, is sprayed onto archival art paper or canvas. The effect is similar to the airbrush technique but much finer. Each piece is carefully hand mounted onto a drum that rotates during the process. Exact calculations of hue, value and density direct the ink of four nozzles. This produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes (with over 3 million color possibilities) of highly saturated, nontoxic water-based ink. The process is then completed by the application of UV light retardant and light stabilizer post coatings. The results are museum-quality prints. They have gained wide acceptance from artists like David Hockney and Robert Rauschenberg to major art institutions like the Los Angeles County Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the British Art Museum, London England. Each edition comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. landscape - A painting of or including a body of land. life drawing - The act of drawing the human figure from a live (often nude) model, and each such drawing produced. Widely considered an essential component of an artist's education, life drawing trains the simultaneous workings of the eyes, the brain, and the hand; and increases skills needed for representation of the human form. linen - A cloth woven from thread made from fibers of the flax plant. Although it has been used in many ways, linen is an especially desirable support for painting. As such it is one of several textiles that may be called canvas. Segil Fine Art artist Don Munz [html link] paints his oil paintings on Belgian Linen. mixed media - A technique involving the use of two or more artistic media, such as ink and pastel or painting and collage, that are combined in a single composition. The term intermedia is used synonymously. oil paint - Slow-drying paint made when pigments are mixed with an oil, linseed oil being most traditional. The oil dries with a hard film, and the brightness of the colors is protected. Oil paints are usually opaque and traditionally used on canvas. They can have a matte, semi-gloss, or glossy finish. plein air - (pronounced pleh-nayr') French for "open air," used mostly to describe paintings that have been executed outdoors, rather than in the studio. Its popularity was aided by the development of easily portable painting equipment and materials, including paints sold in tubes. The equivalent term in Italian is "alfresco." warm colors - Colors are often described as having temperature -- as warm (purples, reds, oranges, and yellows), neutral (violets and greens), or cool (blue-greens and blues). Warm colors are often associated with fire and sun. They appear on one side of the color wheel, bordered by the neutral colors, and opposite the cool colors. Psychologically, warm colors are said to be stimulating and passionate. Optically, warm colors generally appear to advance, coming toward the viewer. waterscape - A painting of or including a body of water. It might otherwise be called a marine picture, a seascape, or a riverscape, etc.
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