Gouache		Low intensity of a specific colour, making that colour look dull.
Dry Brush		A painting in which the subject matter is natural scenery.
Backwash		A painting in which the subject is of a person's face.
Pigment		Using an absorbent material such as paper towels, or a sponge, to lighten large areas or pick out fine details.
Paint Tube		Painting technique using white and opaque colors.
Stretching		Paint that shows the surface of the paper or paint underneath it.
Unsaturated		A wash that smoothly changes in value from dark to light.
Cold Pressed		1) The surface used for mixing and storing paint. 2) The selection of colors an artist chooses to work with.
Brushwork		Any area of a painting where a wash of single colour and value is painted in a series of multiple, overlapping strokes following the flow of the paint making the area one solid colour.
Wet on Wet		High intensity of a specific colour.
Graduated Wash		Lighter lb. papers need to be "stretched" to keep them from buckling. You can do this by wetting your paper, then tacking it to a board until it is dry.
Transparent		Putting paint on your brush, then wiping most of it off until it is almost dry, then painting on a dry surface.
Blotting		A material that changes the color of light it reflects.
Flat Wash		Packaged watercolour paint.
Watercolour		When your fresh brush stroke hits a damp area it bleed together, like fractals. This can totally screw up what you are intending to do, unless you do it on purpose..
Paintbrush		Watercolour paint in solid form.
Paint Cake		This paper is quite rough after being pressed. Artists can achieve a more uneven, grainy look to their paintings.
Portrait		A dense paint that obscures or totally hides the underpainting in any given artwork.
Landscape		The technique of painting wet color into a wet surface
Palette		The paper is pressed with heat to make it very smooth. Best for when more detail is needed.
Wet on Dry		The technique of painting wet colour onto dry paper and/or dry paint.
Hot Pressed		A method of painting using pigments suspended in water.
Saturated		A brush used to apply paint.
Opaque		The techniques used to apply paint to paper.