PAINTING

• painting - The expression of ideas and emotions, with the creation of certain aesthetic qualities, in a two dimensional visual language
• painting - An artist’s decision to use a particular medium, such as tempera, fresco, oil, acrylic, watercolor or other water-based paints, ink, encaustic, or casein.
• painting - The pigment may be in a wet form, such as paint, or a dry form, such as pastels.
• painting -can also be a verb, the action of creating such an artwork.
• pigment - Natural or synthetic-colored materials finely ground into a powder. ex. Clay, gemstones, minerals, plants, insects.
• binder - Holds the pigment together and adheres the paint to a surface. ▪ Examples include: Egg yolks, linseed oil, wax
• VEHICLE (SOLVENT) - Is added to thin or thicken paint, slow or speed up its drying time. ▪ Examples include: Water or oil.
• TEMPERA - Water based, egg binder, used prior to 1400’s, colors cannot be mixed, narrow range, fast-drying.
• oil paint - Easily mixed, permanent, used after 1400, slow-drying, can be used in thick more thin layers called glazes or in lumps
• water color - Most common water-based paint, transparent. White paint is seldom used to lighten paint (water is used) Light colors are applied first, then dark, working from background to foreground.
• acrylic color - Synthetic paint with plastic binder ▪ Recent (20th century), versatile, similar to oil but dries faster, not as shiny.