- "Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface."
This subfield explores various painting techniques and styles, including acrylic, oil, watercolor, and more.
Color theory: The study of color and how colors interact with each other in art.
Composition: The arrangement of visual elements or parts in a painting, including balance, proportion, and visual weights.
Brushwork: The technique of using different brush strokes and textures to create a desired effect in a painting.
Painting mediums: The materials used for a painting, such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, and tempera. Each medium has its own unique properties and technique.
Value and tone: The contrast of light and dark in a painting, and the relationship between the different shades of color.
Brush types and maintenance: Different types of brushes and how to properly clean and store them for future use.
Painting surfaces: The different types of surfaces on which a painting can be done, such as canvas, paper, wood, or metal.
Painting techniques and styles: Different ways of applying paint to a surface, such as impasto, glazing, or alla prima painting, as well as styles such as impressionism or expressionism.
Underpainting: The preliminary layer of paint applied to a surface before the final layers, used to establish composition and values.
Perspective: The technique of creating an illusion of depth and space in a painting, using vanishing points and lines.
Drawing: The skill of creating an accurate representation of the subject matter through drawing and sketching before painting.
Color mixing: The skill of combining different colors to create new shades, hues, and tones for painting.
Focal point: The area or object of interest in a painting, often emphasized by color, contrast, or composition.
Light and shadow: The use of light and dark areas to create depth, contrast, and mood in a painting.
Subject matter: The content or theme of a painting, such as landscapes, still lifes, portraits, or abstract art.
Historical context: The cultural and social factors that influenced the creation and interpretation of paintings in different historical periods and regions.
- "The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush."
- "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 (the final work is called 'a painting')."
- "The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper, and concrete."
- "The painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects."
- "Painting is an important form of visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction."
- "Paintings can be naturalistic and representational, photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic, emotive, or political in nature."
- "A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by religious art."
- "Examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery, to Biblical scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, to scenes from the life of Buddha."
- "The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper, and concrete."
- "Paintings can be naturalistic and representational...narrative, symbolistic, emotive, or political in nature."
- "Paintings can be...narrative."
- "The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush...knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used."
- "Painting is an important form of visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction."
- "The painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects."
- "Paintings can be...political in nature (as in Artivism)."
- "Examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery, to Biblical scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, to scenes from the life of Buddha."
- "Painting is an important form of visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction."
- "Other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used."