How To Paint

Painting is a practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface. In art, term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting.

In Western cultures, oil painting and water color painting are the best known media, with rich and complex traditions in style and subject matter.

Examples of a painting media:

- Acrylic
- Dry pastel
- Enamel paint
- Encaustic wax
- Fresco
- Gouache
- Ink
- Light
- Oil
- Oil pastel
- Spray paint
- Tempera
- Water miscible oil paints
- Water color

Painting Styles

In painting, styles are used in two senses. It could refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify an individual artist’s work.

Western Styles

- Abstract
- Baroque
- Body painting
- Cubism
- Digital painting
- Graffiti
- Hard-edge
- Pin striping
- Pop art
- Primitive

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