ARTS: PAINTING

These are primarily decorative

• Lines

• Colours

• Shapes

These are elements of design, include all areas of different colour, tone, and texture, as well as individual and grouped images

• Shape and mass

• Shape and Texture

• Mass and Texture

An opaque, thick, water-soluble paint that has similar properties to both watercolors and acrylic paints

• Watercolor

• Acrylic

• Gouache

A water-based paint that is more translucent, dries quickly, and is permanent or lightfast. T

• Watercolor

• Acrylic

• Gouache

This paint is also water-based but is thicker and opaque. The paint dries quickly, and permanently and is water-resistant.

• Watercolor

• Acrylic

• Gouache

It includes all areas of a painting enriched or animated by vibrating patterns of lines, shapes, tones, and colours, in addition to the tactile textures created by the plastic qualities of certain mediums

• Shape

• Texture

• Line

Artists will occasionally use a paintbrush that is mostly dry to the touch but still holds paint to produce art using a technique known as dry brushing.

• Underpainting

• Dry brushing

• Splattering

Technique used to draw out the luminosity of a painting by applying a thin transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint onto a painting

• Dry brushing

• Pouring

• Glazing

It comes from the Italian for ‘scratched’ and refers to a technique used in painting that involves scratching through a layer of paint to expose what remains underneath

• Dabbing

• Sgraffito

• Stippling

Painting refers to a technique in which paint is applied in free, sweeping gestures.

• Dabbing

• Splattering

• Gestural