- "Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface."
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.
Color theory: Understanding how colors interact with each other and how to create harmonious color schemes.
Brushwork: Techniques for manipulating brush strokes to create different textures and effects.
Composition: The arrangement of elements within a painting to create a visually pleasing image.
Concept development: Brainstorming and developing ideas for a painting, including themes, subject matter, and overall style.
Mediums: Different types of paint, such as acrylic, oils, and watercolors, and their unique properties and techniques for handling.
Surface preparation: Preparing the canvas or other surface for painting, including priming, preparing the surface, and varnishing.
Perspective: Understanding how to create the illusion of depth and distance within a painting.
Still life: Painting objects arranged in a still life composition, often using traditional techniques such as chiaroscuro.
Landscape painting: Capturing the beauty of nature through painting, including techniques for depicting light, weather, and other natural elements.
Portraiture: Techniques for painting faces and bodies, including understanding proportion, capturing likeness, and conveying personality.
Abstract painting: Exploring non-representational painting, including techniques for creating texture, color, and movement.
Impressionism: A painting style characterized by loose brushwork, emphasis on light and color, and capturing the fleeting moment.
Expressionism: A painting style characterized by a focus on personal expression and emotion, often through bold colors and exaggerated forms.
Realism: A painting style characterized by depicting subjects realistically, often using traditional techniques such as chiaroscuro and perspective.
Surrealism: A painting style characterized by juxtaposing realistic and dreamlike elements to create a sense of the uncanny.
Pop art: A painting style characterized by vibrant colors, recognizable imagery from popular culture, and often ironic commentary on consumer culture.
Contemporary art: Exploring modern art movements and artists, including topics such as minimalism, conceptual art, installation art, and more.
Mixed media: Combining different materials and techniques to create unique and layered works of art.
Restoration: Techniques for repairing and restoring damaged paintings, including cleaning, retouching, and conserving the original work.
Critique: Understanding how to analyze and evaluate artwork, including developing a critical eye and providing feedback to fellow artists.
Watercolor Painting: A type of painting that uses water-soluble pigments to create a transparent or translucent effect.
Oil Painting: A painting technique that uses pigments mixed with oil to create a rich, textured effect.
Acrylic Painting: A modern painting technique that uses water-soluble acrylics to create a bold, colorful painting.
Encaustic Painting: A technique involving the use of pigments mixed with hot wax.
Fresco Painting: A type of painting technique that uses wet plaster as the painting surface.
Impressionism Painting: A style of painting that focuses on capturing the fleeting effects of light and color.
Expressionism Painting: A style of painting that emphasizes the expression of inner feelings and emotions.
Realism Painting: A painting style that focuses on creating a realistic and accurate depiction of the subject matter.
Surrealism Painting: A painting style that uses dreamlike imagery and symbolism to express the subconscious mind.
Abstract Painting: A painting style that emphasizes a non-representational approach to creating art.
Pop Art Painting: A painting style that uses popular culture imagery to comment on society and consumerism.
Cubism Painting: A painting style that represents objects from multiple angles at the same time.
Pointillism Painting: A painting technique that uses small dots of color to create an image.
Photorealism Painting: A painting style that creates a hyper-realistic image that looks like a photograph.
Baroque Painting: A style of painting that is characterized by dramatic lighting, bold colors, and complex compositions.
Rococo Painting: A style of painting that is characterized by delicate, light-hearted designs and pastel colors.
Renaissance Painting: A style of painting that was popular during the Renaissance era that emphasizes technique and realism.
- "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."