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  2. Encaustic painting - Wikipedia

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    Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added. The molten mix is applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are sometimes used. The simplest encaustic medium could be made by adding pigments to wax, though ...

  3. Gesso - Wikipedia

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    Gesso is traditionally a mix of an animal glue binder (usually rabbit-skin glue ), chalk, and white pigment. For priming flexible canvas, an emulsion of gesso and linseed oil, also called "half-chalk ground", is used. [4] Acrylic gesso is a mixture of white pigment and some kind of filler (chalk, silica, etc.) and acrylic resin dispersed in water.

  4. Casein paint - Wikipedia

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    Uses. Casein paint has been used since ancient Egyptian times as a form of distemper paint, and is still used today. One of the qualities for which artists value casein paint is that unlike gouache, it dries to an even consistency, making it ideal for murals. Also, it can visually resemble oil painting more than most other water-based paints ...

  5. Lining of paintings - Wikipedia

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    The lining of paintings is a process of conservation science and art restoration used to strengthen, flatten or consolidate oil or tempera paintings on canvas by attaching a new support to the back of the existing one. The process is sometimes referred to as relining. Most often a new support will be added directly to the back of an existing ...

  6. Wet-on-wet - Wikipedia

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    Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt ), direct painting or au premier coup, [1] is a painting technique in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint. Used mostly in oil painting, the technique requires a fast way of working, because the work has to be finished before the first ...

  7. Renaissance Wax - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance Wax is a brand of microcrystalline wax polish used in antique restoration and museum conservation around the world. Commonly used to polish and conserve metal objects, it is also used on gemstones and such organic materials as wood, ivory, and tortoiseshell. The product is sometimes used by reenactors to protect armor and weapons.

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