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Camera Lucida
In art, a common drawing aid in the 17th century that worked on similar principles to the less practical camera obscura (which transmitted an external scene through a small hole in the wall of a darkened room, forming an inverted image on the opposite wall). The camera lucida uses a prism and mirrors to project the image of an external object onto a flat, drawing surface so that it can be traced.
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plein air
acrylic paint
allegory (art)
blocking in
camera lucida
camera obscura
caricature
chiaroscuro
cloisonnism
colour wash
diptych
distemper (painting)
fresco
history painting
illusionism
impasto
landscape painting
miniature painting
mural painting
oil paint
painting
panorama
pointillism
polytych
portraiture
scumble
serial imagery
still life
stipple
tempera
triptych
underpainting
watercolour painting
woodcut
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