List of artistic mediums
In the arts, a medium (mediums, media) is a material used by an artist to create a work.
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Drawing
In drawing, "media" refers to both the material that is manually applied and to the base onto which it is applied1 . The media applied can be many things but the method of application is a stick type object with a point (not a brush) that transfers particles of media to the base. The point of the stick can be minute as it can be large. The medium applied can be graphite, fusain, pastel, ink among other things . Bases can be paper, plaster, canvas, wood or basically anything that accepts the medium applied from the point of the stick.
Common drawing media
- Pastel chalk or oil
- Charcoal soft or hard
- Colored pencil
- Conté
- Crayon
- Graphite can be pencils, small or large sticks similar to charcoal
- Marker
- Pen and ink
Common bases for drawing
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Film
In cinematography, a sequence of still images is captured with a video camera. A series of individual images are called frames. When these images are shown in rapid succession, a viewer gains the displayed illusion that motion is occurring.
- Animation
- Computer animation and computer-generated imagery
- Live-action
- Live-action/animated
- Stop motion
- Video Art
Painting
In painting, "media" refers to both the type of paint used and the base (or ground) to which it is applied. A paint's medium refers to what carries a paint's pigments, and is also called a "vehicle" or a "base". A painter can mix a medium with solvents, pigments, and other substances in order to make paint and control consistency.
Common paint media
- Acrylic paint
- Enamel paint
- Fresco
- Gesso
- Glaze
- Gouache
- Ink
- Latex paint
- Magna paint
- Oil paint
- Primer
- Sumi
- Tempera
- Vinyl paint (toxic/poisonous)
- Watercolor
Common ground media
Application tools and methods
Muralism techniques
Muralists use many of the same media as panel painters, but due to the scale of their works, use different techniques. Some such techniques include:
- Fresco
- Cartoon
- Comics
- Digital painting
- Graphic novel
- Overhead and slide projection
- Pounce (technique)
Photography
In photography a photosensitive surface is used to capture an optical still image, usually utilizing a lens to focus light. Some media include:
- photographic film
- digital image sensor
- silver nitrate
- potassium ferricyanide & ferric ammonium citrate
- potassium dichromate
Printmaking
In the art of printmaking, "media" tends to refer to the technique used to create a print. Common media include:
- Aquatint
- Engraving
- Etching
- Inkjet printing (sometimes called Giclée printing)
- Laser printing
- Linocut
- Lithography
- Moku hanga
- Offset printing
- Plate printing
- Photographic printing
- Screen-printing
- Woodcut
Sculpture
In sculpting solid and textured surfaces and structures are shaped or combined using substances and components to form a three dimensional object.
Materials
carved materials
cast materials
modeled materials
Assembled materials
- Beads
- Corrugated fiberboard (Cardboard)
- Edible material
- Found objects
- Glue and other adhesives
- Paperboard
- Textile
- Wire
- Wood
finishing materials
- acids to creat a patina
- wax
- Polychrome
Tools
- Bristled brush
- Potter's wheel and kiln
- Chiselandhammer commonly pneumatic for modern uses
- Clamps
- cutting torch
- Hammer or mallet commonly pneumatic for modern uses
- Knife
- Pliers
- Power tools
- Sandpaper
- Saw
- Scraper
- Snips
- Wirecutters
See also
- Digital media
- Mixed media
- Liberal arts
- Multimedia
- New materials in 20th century art
- Plastic arts
- Recording medium
- Video Art
External links
- Media (artists' materials) definition from the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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- ^ The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques, Ralph Mayer