Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium[1] to a surface (support

base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brushbut other implements, such as
knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.
In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. Paintings may have for
their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood,glass, lacquer, clay, leaf, copper or
concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf
as well as objects.
The term painting is also used outside of art as a common trade among craftsmen and builders.
A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent
surface. A distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the
given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.
Some wall paintings are painted on large canvases, which are then attached to the wall (e.g.,
with marouflage). Whether these works can be accurately called "murals" is a subject of some
controversy in the art world[who?], but the technique has been in common use since the late 19th
century.[1]
Easel painting is a term in art history for the type of mid-size painting that would have been painted
on an easel, as opposed to a fresco wall-painting orminiature that would have been created sitting at
a desk, though perhaps also on an angled support. It does not refer to the method of display after
creation; in fact most easel paintings are intended to be displayed framed and hanging on a wall.

finger painting
the art or process of painting by using the fingers, hand, or arm to spread, on
moistened paper, paints () made of starch, glycerin, and pigments a painting made
in this manner
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth and Ireland), also aquarelle from
French, is a painting method in which the paintsare made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble
vehicle. The term "watercolor" refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork. The traditional
and most common support (material to which the paint is applied) for watercolor paintings is paper;
other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood, and canvas.
Watercolors are usually transparent, and appear luminous because the pigments are laid down in a
relatively pure form with few fillers obscuring the pigment colors. Watercolor can also be made
opaque by adding Chinese white. In East Asia, watercolor painting with inks is referred to as brush
painting or scroll painting. In Chinese, Korean, and Japanese painting it has been the dominant

medium, often in monochrome black or browns. India, Ethiopia and other countries also have long
traditions. Fingerpainting with watercolor paints originated in China.
Poster paint is a tempera paint that usually uses a type of gum-water or glue size as its binder. It
either comes in large bottles or jars or in a powdered form. It is normally a "cheap" paint used in
theatrical backdrops or in grade school art classes.

Tempera (Italian: [tmpera]), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying

painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder
medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other
size). Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium.
A wash is a term for a visual arts technique resulting in a semi-transparent layer of color. A wash of
diluted ink or watercolor paint applied in combination withdrawing is called pen and wash, wash
drawing, or ink and wash.[4] Normally only one or two colours of wash are used; if more colours are
used the result is likely to be classified as a full watercolor painting.

Encaustic painting, also known as hot waxpainting, involves using heated beeswax to
which colored pigments are added. The liquid or paste is then applied to a surface
usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used.
Children often discover resist techniques by experimenting with watercolor paints and
crayons on paper. The wax crayon repels watercolor paint that is brushed over it; the
watercolor paint adheres to the paper surrounding the crayon.
Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of
that material. The technique can be applied to any material that is solid enough to hold a form even
when pieces have been removed from it, and yet soft enough for portions to be scraped away with
available tools. Carving, as a means for making sculpture, is distinct from methods using soft and
malleable materials like clay or melted glass, which may be shaped into the desired forms while soft
and then harden into that form. Carving tends to require much more work than methods using
malleable materials.
Molding or moulding (see spelling differences) is the process of manufacturing by shaping liquid or
pliable raw material using a rigid frame called a mold or matrix.[1] This itself may have been made
using a pattern or model of the final object.
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Casting is a manufacturing process by which a liquid material is usually poured

into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to
solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or broken out of
the mold to complete the process.
Relief, or relievo rilievo, is a sculptural technique. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo, to
raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been
raised above the background plane.[1] What is actually performed when a relief is cut in from a flat

surface of stone (relief sculpture) or wood (relief carving) is a lowering of the field, leaving the
unsculpted parts seemingly raised. The technique involves considerable chiselling away of the
background, which is a time-consuming exercise. On the other hand, a relief saves forming the rear
of a subject, and is less fragile and more securely fixed than a sculpture in the round, especially one
of a standing figure where the ankles are a potential weak point, especially in stone. In other
materials such as metal, clay, plaster stucco, ceramics or papier-mache the form can be just added
to or raised up from the background, and monumental bronze reliefs are made by casting.

Constructing SculptureAn American artist, Deborah Butterfield (born in 1949),

lives on a ranch in Montana, and constructs* sculptures that represent* horses.
Some of these sculptures are smaller than life-size and made of mud and sticks,
others are made partly or entirely of discarded industrial material*.
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and
designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces,
whereas exterior interventions are often called public art, land art or intervention art; however, the
boundaries between these terms overlap.

Color (American English) or colour (British English; see spelling differences) is the visual
perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, etc. Color
derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in the
eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications
of color are also associated with objects or materials based on their physical properties such as light
absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. By defining a color space colors can be identified
numerically by their coordinates.
Lines and curves are marks that span a distance between two points (or the path of a moving point).
As an art element, line pertains to the use of various marks, outlines and implied lines in artwork and
design. A line has a width, direction, and length.[2] A line's width is sometimes called its "thickness".
Lines are sometimes called "strokes", especially when referring to lines in digital artwork\
Shape pertains to the use of areas in two-dimensional space that can be defined by edges.[1] Shapes
can be geometric or organic.Shapes are defined by other elements of art(such as line, form, space,
value, color, and texture).
The form pertains to the volume or perceived volume. Three-dimensional artwork has depth as well
as width and height.[2] Three-dimensional form is the basis of sculpture.[2] However, twodimensionalartwork can achieve the illusion of form with the use of perspective and/or shading or
modeling techniques
Space is an area that an artist provides for a particular purpose. [2] Space includes the background,
foreground and middle ground, and refers to the distances or area(s) around, between, and within
things. There are two kinds of space: negative space and positive space.[1] Negative space is the
area in between, around, through or within an object. Positive spaces are the areas that are
occupied by an object and/or form.