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SPHERE—A form where all points are equidistant from the center.
SPINE—The bound edge of a book.
SPLINE—A flexible rule, held in place by lead ducks, used to draw irregular
curves.
SPLIT BRUSH TECHNIQUE—Also called DRY BRUSH TECHNIQUE.
Painting or drawing with a brush having the hairs separated to form more
than one point.
SPLIT COMPLEMENT—A color scheme that uses a key hue with the two
colors that lie adjacent to its opposite on the color wheel.
SPLIT FIELD—A rangefinder that focuses an image by dividing the image
in half and requiring alignment into a whole.
SPOT COLOR—Using a combination of two individual colors, a main
color, usually black, and an accent color instead of a full-color output.
SQUEEGEE—(1) An implement used on silk process printing presses that
forces ink and ink compounds through the screen and stencil onto a printing
surface to form the image; (2) The process of forcing pigment across a
surface with other than a brush.
STABILIZER—A chemical that arrests the continued development of an
image and fixes that image into the surface.
STABILO PENCIL—A pencil that uses grease or wax as a binder for
pigment and is capable of writing on glass.
STAT—See PHOTOSTAT.
STATIC—Lacking in movement.
STATION POINT—The point of observation in the making of perspective
drawings.
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