Painting Hobbies
Painting Supports
- Panel
- Mural (Walls)
- Paper
- Canvas
Popular Painting Styles
- Modernism
- Abstract
- Postmodernism
- Constructivism
- Hard-edge
- Graffiti
- Realism
- Impressionism
- Pointillism
- Naive art
- Cubism
Painting Techniques
Impasto
- Pointillism (aka divisionism, 'stippling')
- Sfumato
- Sumi-e
- New materials (painting)
- Computer painting (Digital)
- (Partially) destructive techniques like grattage and peinture brulée, with which Joan Miró, among others, experimented.
- Wash
- Glaze
- Grisaille
- Scumble
Common Painting Idioms
- Industrial
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Still Life
- War
- Allegory
- Bodegon
- Botanical
- Figure painting
- Illustration
List of painters
Shortcuts to highly popular painters:
- Pablo Picasso, (1881-1973), Spanish cubist artist
- Jackson Pollock, (1912-1956), US abstract expressionist painter
- Rembrandt, (1606-1669), Dutch painter
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919), French impressionist painter
- Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), Belgian painter
- Leonardo da Vinci, (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
- Paul Cézanne, (1839-1906), French artist
- Salvador Dalí, (1904-1989), Catalan artist
- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, (1475-1564), Italian sculptor and painter
- Amedeo Modigliani, (1884-1920), Italian sculptor and painter
- Claude Monet, (1840-1926), French impressionist painter
Painting media
- Encaustic (wax)
- Watercolor
- Fresco
- Spray paint (Graffiti)
- Oil, including the newer water-miscible oils Heat-set oils
- Acrylic
- Gouache
- Ink
- Pastel, including dry pastels, oil pastels, and pastel pencils
- Tempera
