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2. Liquid chalk - Wikipedia

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   The term liquid chalk, or sharkchalk, refers to several different kinds of liquified chalk including liquid-chalk marking pens (with water-soluble ink), liquid-chalk mixtures (for athletic use: rock climbing, weightlifting, gymnastics), and liquid-chalk hobby-craft paints made of cornstarch and food coloring (some with small amounts of flour).

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. Wood drying - Wikipedia

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   Wood drying (also seasoning lumber or wood seasoning) reduces the moisture content of wood before its use. When the drying is done in a kiln, the product is known as kiln-dried timber or lumber, whereas air drying is the more traditional method. There are two main reasons for drying wood: Woodworking

5. Writing implement - Wikipedia

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   The casing usually includes a cover for the nib, in order to protect its shape and keep the ink from evaporating dry or wicking into the user's pocket. Depending on the design of the pen, the ink reservoir can be filled in several different ways: direct addition by eyedropper, suction from an internal mechanism, or disposable pre-filled cartridges.

6. Distemper (paint) - Wikipedia

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   Distemper is an early form of whitewash, also used as a medium for artistic painting, usually made from powdered chalk or lime and size (a gelatinous substance). Alternatives to chalk include the toxic substance white lead.

7. Tempera - Wikipedia

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   Crevole Madonna by Duccio, tempera with gold ground on wood, 1284, Siena. Tempera (Italian:), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera ...

8. Pitch (resin) - Wikipedia

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   The heating (dry distilling) of wood causes tar and pitch to drip away from the wood and leave behind charcoal. Birchbark is used to make birch-tar, a particularly fine tar. The terms tar and pitch are often used interchangeably. However, pitch is considered more solid, while tar is more liquid.

9. Fixative (drawing) - Wikipedia

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   In art, in particular drawings in pastels, charcoal, chalk, and other dry media, a fixative is a kind of preserving agent applied over the top of the drawing to prevent crumbling, [1] smudging, fading, and discolouring. [2] [3] In times gone by, natural substances such as diluted egg white were painted on, but today synthetic sprays are usually ...