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Re: art technique - "stomata" - definition?????

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croberts18_at_TeacherArtExchange
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 05:53:25 PDT

No...she's using three different words for three different techniques that's she's talking about...
"stomata"
"sfumato"
"chiaroscuro"

It's supposed to represent a "smoky technique" saying that the word comes from the Latin word "smoke".

Carolyn

> Do you mean "sfumato"? I think I remember that as the illusion of mist
> or fog...but I'm foggy on that and I have no art dictionary at the
> moment.
>
> Linda Woods 

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