Exploring the Great Outdoors - Meridian International Center

Key Illustration: The one piece of art of the book that tells the main idea of the book.
Medium: Any material used for expression or delineation in art. Media is the plural form of
the word. Mixed Media refers to any combination of media.
Movement: The action in the artwork. The way your eye moves across the artwork.
Naïve or Folk Art: Naïve or Folk art can be characterized by a lack of such conventions as
perspective or so-called real appearances. Many artists illustrating folktales or legends use the
artform of their respective countries or cultures.
Oil Paint: Pigment ground in just enough oil to make the mixture pleasantly sticky.
Pastel: Color in its purest form, ground and pressed into chalk-like sticks. Used like a crayon,
often rubbed with a finger or cloth. Pastel is opaque; colors can be intense.
Photography: The art of producing an image on a sensitized surface by the chemical action of
light.
Preliminary Art: A first original piece of art or sketch submitted to the publisher.
Print: Impressions made from inking an imaged block onto a flat surface.
Realism: Artistic representation felt to be visually accurate. Realism is perhaps the easiest to
recognize because it presents a picture of the world as we see it in real life.
Surrealism: Surrealism is characterized more by subject matter than by technique, for the
surrealist combines incongruous images in unnatural juxtapositions. In order to make the viewer
believe in this unreal scene, the artwork will be meticulously detailed realism.
Tempera: A process of painting in which pigments are mixed with size, casein (mostly milk)
or egg, especially egg yolk, to produce a dull finish.
Variant: A finished piece of art that the artist chooses not to use in the book.
Wash: A thin watery layer of paint, watercolor, ink, or acrylic.
Watercolor: Any pigment mixed with water, usually signifying transparent watercolor.
Technically this term includes gouache and tempera.
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