Art Techniques

• Artistic skills


  Abilities possessed by artists who operate within a fine art capacity
• Medium


  The material or substance out of which a work of art is made
• Painters' mediums


  • acrylic
  • watercolor
  • oil
  • gouache
  • ink
• Printmaking


  The process of creating artwork by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces
• Musical mediums


  The voices, instruments, and other entities needed to perform a piece of music
• Theater arts


  Drama combines the art of literature (verbal art) with the visual arts of costuming, stage designing, and so on. Opera combines the art of music (its predominant component) with the art of literature (the libretto) and the visual arts of stage design. Performance art uses the artist's own body as the material or medium.
• Photography mediums


  Cameras that burn light onto film to highly "smart" digital cameras with automatic settings
• Writing process

  Develops with time, moving from paper and ink to typewriters, technologies, and even publishing approaches
• Art technique


  The way artists use and manipulate materials to achieve the desired formal effect, and communicate the desired concept, or meaning, according to their personal style
• Collage


  The technique of art production where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole
• Decollage


  The opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up of all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, treating away, or otherwise removing pieces of an original image
• Graffiti


  Writing or drawings that have been scribed, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface, often in a public space
• Land art


  An art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock, organic media, and water which introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments
• Digital art


  Artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process
• Digital art


  An artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process
• Digital art


  • Images done completely on a computer
  • Hand-drawn images scanned into a computer and finished using software
• Digital art


  • Can involve animation and 3D virtual sculpture renderings
  • Can involve the manipulation of video images
• The impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as paintings, drawing, sculpture, and music/sound art, while new forms such as net art have emerged
• The techniques of digital art are used extensively by the mainstream media in advertisements and by film-makers to produce visual effects
• Both digital and traditional artists use many sources of electronic information and programs to create their work
• Digital artists


  • Ronnie del Carmen, co-director of the animated film Inside Out
  • Ricky Nierva, production designer of the animated Pixar Studios film Up
• Mixed media


  A work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art
• Mixed media artworks


  • Holly Harrison, Time Is a Story (2017)
  • Lisa A. Foster, A Way To Start (2017)
  • Todd Pavlisko, Dollar (2017)
• Printmaking


  The process of making artwork by painting, normally on paper. Prints are created by transforming ink from a matrix or through a prepared screen to a sheet of paper or other material.
• Printmaking techniques


  • Metal plates, usually copper or zinc, or polymer plates for engraving or etching
  • Stone, aluminum or polymer for lithography
  • Blocks of wood for woodcuts and wood graving
  • Linoleum for linocuts
  • Silk or synthetic fabric screens for screen-printing
• Frottage


  The technique of rubbing with a crayon on a piece of paper that has been placed over an object or an image to create an impression
• Frottage artworks


  • Christian Rohlfs, Large Heads (2 Heads I)
• Decalcomania


  The process of applying gouache to paper or glass and then transferring a reversal of the image onto canvas or other flat materials
• Decoupage


  The technique of adhering cut-outs of paper and then coating these with one or a transparent coating of varnish
• Eggshell mosaic


  An artistic technique that uses tiny parts of eggshell to create a whole image or object
• Trapunto painting


  A technique where the artist paints on canvas, applies a layer of cotton batting and backing, and then applies recycled objects found from all walks of life on the painted face of the canvas
• Trapunto painting artworks


  • Artworks of Pacita Abad
  • A detail from Pacita Abad's The Village Where I Came From (1991)