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Painting Techniques include

Impasto,
Wash, drip,
Encaustic,
Fresco, scumble and stipple.

Media is the vehicle that the pigment is applied or embedded in. Examples include

Oil painting,
Acrylic Paint,
Colored Pencil,
Gouache,
Ink,
Pastel,
Egg Tempera,
wax and
Watermedia Painting.

Painting Styles can be characterized by the method of application loose or tight, or by the predominant characteristics that the painting expresses.

Painting Tools include the various types of
Artists Brush,
Palette Knife, sponge and even the finger.
Paint is made up of Pigment and media, with perhaps drying accelerants, texture enhancers and other modifiers added.
Mural
New materials (painting)
Tempera
Oil painting
Panel painting

For historical and contemporary movements in painting, see History of painting.

You can also see a list of artistic Painters.

With the advent of the Information Technology era, Computer painting is rapidly becoming pencil of modern painters.


What are our priorities for writing in this area? To help develop a list of the most basic topics about painting, please see Painting basic topics.


External links to art-related sites (sources of information for writing Wikipedia articles):

http://www.metmuseum.org/
http://www.moma.org/docs/menu/index.htm
http://www.artchive.com/
http://www.rmn.fr/US/index2.html
http://www.sensable.com/
http://www.virtualberet.org/
http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/splash.html
http://www.walkerart.org/
http://www.stunned.org/
http://www.NextMonet.com/
http://www.internationalposter.com/
http://www.bertimosaici.com/
http://www.musee-orsay.fr:8081/ORSAY/ORSAYGB/HTML
http://frick.org/
http://artmuseum.net/
http://www.groveart.com/