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• encaustic

  Also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used.
• Tempera


  Also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size.
• Tempera tends to be yellowish in color
• Tempera Paintings

  • Birth Of Venus by Sandro Boticelli
  • Foreshortened Christ by Andrea Mantegna
• Fresco

  The colors are mixed with water and applied to fresh plaster which absorbs the color. Fresco is almost impossible to move.
• Fresco paintings


  • Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
  • School of Athens by Raphael
  • Holy Trinity by Masaccio

  
• Watercolor

  Pigments are mixed with water and applied to white paper. Paper goes well with watercolor. Fast-drying quality makes it difficult to make corrections.
• Oil

  Pigments are mixed in oil. The surface that is most ideal is canvas. Colors are more opaque. It does not dry quickly. You can make corrections easily.
• Pastel


  The pigment is bound so as to form a crayon which is applied directly to the surface usually paper. It has no glazed effect. The chalk sometimes tends to rub off.
• Acrylic


  Newest medium that is used widely by painters. Synthetic paints using acrylic emulsion as binder. They combine the quick-drying properties of watercolor and the flexibility of oil.
• Mosaic


  Small pieces of glass, pebbles, colored stones and tiles that are glued together by an adhesive such as grout.
• Stained glass


  Commonly used to describe any colored flat glass or any object made of such glass joined by metal frames. The term originally applied to colored or clear flat glass cut to fit an artist's design, on which details were painted in pigment with a brush.
• Tapestry


  A form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom. However, it can also be woven on a floor loom as well.
• Sculpture techniques

  • Subtractive – the process in which unwanted material is cut away
  • Additive – the construction of a figure by putting together bits of clay or by welding together parts of metal
• WOOD

  • Cheap and readily available
  • It is relatively light and can be made easily into variety of shapes
  • It burns easily. They decay easily
  • Cannot be used outdoors
• Stone

  • Most commonly used for sculpture
  • Durable and resistant to the elements
  • It is heavy and breaks easily
  • Marble is the most popular stone because of its gloss and smoothness
• Bronze AND OTHER METALS


  • The bronze is the most commonly used metal
  • It is light and the figure can support itself in many positions
• Ivory

  • It is an expensive and rare medium because it uses the tusk of an elephant
  • It cracks
  • It is valuable
  • The size is limited
• terra cota

  • Material made of clay
  • It easily breaks
  • Responsive to a sculptor's hands and tools
• Fayum Mummy Portrait (Egypt)

  
• Birth of Venus by Sandro Boticelli

  
• Foreshortened Christ by Andrea Mantega

  
• Creation of Adams by Michelangelo

  
• School of Athens BY Raphael
• School of Athens by Raphael

  
• Holy Trinity by Masaccio

  
• The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

  
• Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci

  
• American Gothic by Grant Wood

  Oil on Beaverboard

  
• Portrait After a Costume Ball by Edgar Degas

  
• The Bigger Splash by David Hockney

  
• Cambell Soup Cans by Andy Warhol

  
• Hagiashophia (Deesis Mosaic)

  
• Stained Glass

  
• Tapestry

  
• Penitent Magdalene by Donatello

  
• David by Michelangelo

  
• La Pieta by Michelangelo

  
• Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

  
• Baldacchino in St. Peter's Basilica by Bernini