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shat- ohn, noun. French for kit-ten (kit´ n), n.
1. a young cat. — v.t., v.i. 2. to bring forth (kittens). [ME kitoun, kyton, t. d. OF; cf. OF chitoun, dim of chat cat] —kit´ten•like´, adj. cute (kut), adj. cuter, cutest. 1. U.S. Colloq. pleasingly pretty or dainty: a cute child, hat, etc. 2. Archaic or Dial. mentally keen; clever; shrewd. [aphetic var. of acute] —cute´ly, adv. —cute'ness, n. fuzz·y (fuz´i), adj. fuzzier, fuzziest. <br>1. of the nature of or resembling fuzz. 2. covered with fuzz. 3. indistinct; blurred —fuzz´i•ly, adv. —fuzz´i•ness, n. |
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More on Texture
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| You can use different strokes to show the texture of an object.
For example, you can use soft, thin strokes to communicate feathery objects such as shrubbery, trees with lacy foliage, or moss hanging from a tree. You can also blend the object into the sky. This conveys the impression of the sun shining through the object, revealing its feathery quality. To paint hard solid objects such as rocks, use angular strokes with hard edges. To suggest foreground foliage or grass, paint short, squiggly strokes. You can emphasize the solidity of solid objects over feathery ones by contrasting drawn out q-tip strokes blending into strokes of pastels, applied with a stump, over the watercolor. Use this technique to paint a tree branch covered by feathery hanging moss, or the feathery branches of a tree seen against a solid trunk. Use smaller pastel pencils for detail work. |