Art Media and Techniques


 * a trois crayons
 * abbozzo
 * abstract art
 * abstract expressionism
 * academic
 * acanthus
 * achromatic colors
 * acrylics or acrylic painting
 * action painting
 * advancing and retreating colors
 * airbrushing or airbrush
 * alla prima
 * alligatoring
 * amphora
 * anamorphosis
 * anthemion
 * applique
 * aquarelle
 * aquatint
 * arabesque
 * art nouveau
 * art rupestre
 * assemblage
 * asymmetry
 * aureole
 * automatism
 * avant-garde
 * bas-relief
 * batik
 * biomorphic form
 * bisque firing
 * bleed
 * blending
 * blister
 * bloom
 * blush
 * bottega
 * brass rubbing
 * brown coat
 * buckeye
 * cabinet picture
 * cachet
 * calendering
 * calligraphy
 * caricature
 * cartooning
 * ceramics
 * chalking
 * charcoal drawing
 * chasing
 * checking
 * chiaroscuro
 * chromatic colors
 * chromaticity
 * chrysography
 * cinquefoil
 * cissing
 * classical
 * classicism
 * cleavage
 * cloisonnism
 * collage
 * collotype
 * color print
 * color wash
 * commercial art
 * concours
 * conté
 * crackle
 * crawl
 * crayon
 * cribbled
 * cubism
 * Dada
 * decoupage
 * deep relief
 * diorama
 * distemper
 * divisionism
 * double image
 * dragging stroke
 * drawing
 * drollery
 * dry-brush
 * drypoint or dry-point
 * ebauche
 * eclecticism
 * ecorche
 * electroplate
 * emboss
 * en camaieu
 * enameling or enamelling
 * encaustic
 * engineering drawing
 * engraving
 * epigone
 * etching
 * exploded view
 * expressionism
 * fauvism
 * fecit
 * festoon
 * figurine
 * filigree
 * fine art
 * finger painting
 * foil
 * foreshortening
 * foxing
 * fresco
 * frilling
 * frottage
 * fugitive colors
 * gallery tone
 * garzone
 * geometric abstraction
 * gilding
 * glost fire
 * glyptic art
 * goffer
 * gouache
 * graphic arts
 * grisaille
 * grotesque
 * guilloche
 * hatching
 * hue
 * icon
 * idiom
 * illumination
 * impasto
 * impressionism
 * inlay
 * inpainting
 * intaglio
 * intarsia
 * intonaco
 * kickwheel
 * kinetic art
 * kitsch
 * lacuna
 * landscape
 * line drawing
 * lino cut
 * lithochromy
 * lithography
 * lost wax
 * magic realism
 * marbling
 * marouflage
 * marquetry
 * matte
 * mechanical drawing
 * melt-and-color
 * metal-working or metalwork
 * mezzo fresco
 * mezzotint
 * miniature painting
 * mixed media
 * mobile
 * moire effect
 * monochrome
 * montage
 * mosaic
 * motif
 * mural painting
 * neoclassical art
 * nonobjective art
 * nouveau
 * objective art
 * oil painting
 * op art
 * optical mixing
 * overpainting
 * painting
 * palmette
 * pastels
 * pastiche
 * pate-sur-pate
 * pencil drawing
 * perspective
 * petite nature
 * photography
 * photogravure
 * photomontage
 * photoprint
 * plastering
 * pochade
 * pointillism
 * polychrome
 * pop art
 * portrait
 * postiche
 * pouncing
 * pricking
 * primitive
 * profil perdu
 * psychedelic art
 * pyrography
 * realism
 * relief
 * relief rubbing
 * repoussé
 * retouching
 * rococo
 * rubbing
 * sand painting
 * scale drawing
 * scrambled colors
 * screen printing
 * scrimshaw
 * scroll
 * sculpture
 * scumble or scumbling
 * secco
 * serigraph
 * sfumato
 * sgraffito
 * shading
 * silhouette
 * silk painting
 * silk screen or silk-screen printing
 * silverpoint
 * sketching
 * smooch
 * soft ground etching
 * sotto in su
 * spatula painting
 * splatter painting
 * spray-can painting
 * squaring
 * stained glass
 * stenciling
 * still life
 * stipple or stippling
 * surrealism
 * tachism
 * tapestry
 * tattooing
 * technical drawing
 * tempera
 * tenebrism
 * thumbnail sketch
 * tondo
 * tone
 * topographic landscape
 * trompe l'oeil
 * underpainting
 * veduta
 * vignette
 * vorticism
 * wash brush
 * wash or wash drawing
 * watercolor or watercoloring
 * weaving
 * wedging
 * wood carving
 * wood engraving
 * woodcut
 * zincography