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Many of the world’s best known painters hone their

Mediums of craft using one or two techniques. But, by
incorporating different styles and mediums into your
Painting work, you have the freedom to explore what you
enjoy using most.
 Acrylic paint is one of the most popular paint mediums,
particularly with beginners, as it’s easy to use and can be
Acrylic quite affordable. Acrylic paints also don’t require special
brushes or cleaning tools like oil paints do, making this
medium a great place to start if you’re new to painting.
Acrylic paint is a quick-drying, water-soluble kind of paint
that artists often use instead of oil paint or watercolors. The
original meaning of acrylic was "containing acryl," from
acrolein, the sharp, bitter liquid in onions, rooted in the Latin
words acer, "sharp," and olere, "to smell."
 Watercolor
Watercolors are also often used by still life,
landscape or portrait painters to create small-
scale studies of complex paintings that they plan
to do in a much larger scale later. Watercolor
works well with colored pencil, watercolor
pencils, graphite and ink for creating mixed
media pieces.
Oil Paint
In its simplest form, oil paint is a mixture of three things: pigment,
binder and thinner. Pigment is the color element, while the binder
(the oil) is the liquid vehicle or carrier which holds the ground-up
pigment to be applied to the canvas or whatever support is to be
painted.
Gouache
Gouache (pronounced goo-ash or
gwahsh – depending on how French
you want to sound) is an ‘opaque
watercolour’ or ‘body colour’.
This basically means that it uses the
same pigments and gum arabic
binder as watercolour but has white
added to it so that it loses the
translucency of watercolour. As a
result, it dries to a flat, matt colour
that reproduces exceedingly well
making it ideal for Commercial Art,
Illustration and posters. White
Gouache is also often used to add
intense highlights to watercolour
paintings.
Gouache
Ink
Painting with ink is one of the
oldest art techniques in the
world, used by the ancient
Egyptians and throughout Asian
illustrations in the form of
calligraphy. Using both black
and colored ink, painting with
this medium is perfect for
highlighting contrasting
elements and bringing the
viewer’s attention to the
smallest of details.
ENCAUSTIC
Encaustic is an ancient painting
method in which wax and pigment are
fused onto a surface with heat.

Encaustic painting, also known as hot

wax painting, is a form of painting that
involves a heated wax medium to
which colored pigments have been
added.
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