Acrylic

 Meaning – this type of painting medium that is mixed with a water-soluble resin. It is used to
create layer of paint in all kind of surface.
 Description – this is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion
and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers stabilizers or metal soaps. They are water-based but it
becomes water resistant when it dries up.
 Notable Works/Artists
1. Fancy Feathers by Cher Anderson
2. Lanterns by April M. Rimpo
3. The Morning After the Snowstorm by Ray Hassard https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-
mediums/acrylic/25-acrylic-paintings-25-top-artists/

Encaustic

 Meaning – Greek word which means “to heat” or “burn in”. This is a type of painting that uses
wax.
 Description – This artworks are done using pigmented wax on a substrate such as wood panel,
and are fused or burned in through the use of heat source.
 Notable Works/Artists
1. Shore Girl by Karen Frey
2. Embryo II by Lynda Benglis
3. Flag (1954) by Jasper Johns
https://www.moeart.org/encaustic-painting https://allthingsencaustic.com/famous-
encaustic-paintings/

Fresco

 Meaning – a painting rapidly done in water color on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the
colors penetrate the paster and become fixed as it dries.
 Description – form of a mural painting which earth pigments are painted directly on fresh, wet,
lime plaster. As the plaster dries, a chemical process bonds the pigment and plaster together.
 Notable Works/Artists
1. Annunciation by Fra Angelico (1450)
2. Sistine Chape Ceiling by Michelangelo (1512)
3. The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci (1498)
https://www.artst.org/fresco-paintings/

Gouache

 Meaning - A method of painting using opaque pigments ground in water and thickened with a
gluelike substance
 Description – this is a type of paint made from pigments bound in water-soluble gum, like
watercolor, but with addition of a white pigment in order to make it opaque.
 Notable Works/Artists
1. The Adoration of the Shepherds by Francois Boucher
2. The Scarlet Sunset by Joseph Mallord William Turner
 3. Blessed Are Those Who Have by Adolf Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel
https://drawpaintacademy.com/top-ten-gouache-artists-from-the-18th-to-the-20th-century/

Magna Paint

 Meaning – Magna is the brand name of an acrylic resin paint, developed by Leonard Bocour and
sold by Bocour Artist Colors, Inc. in 1947. Very different from modern acrylic paint, as it is
composed of pigments ground in an acrylic resin brought into emulsion through the use of
solvents. https://blog.stephens.edu/arh101glossary/?glossary=magna#:~:text=Magna%20is
%20the%20brand%20name,with%20turpentine%20and%20mineral%20spirits.
 Description – fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and
plasticizers, silicon oils, defoamers, stabilizers or metal soaps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_(paint)
 Notable Works/Artists

Oil Paint

 Meaning – Type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying
oil, commonly linseed oil.
 Description – Oil Paints consist of pigments suspended in drying oils – typically dry powder
pigments with linseed oil
 Notable Works/Artists
1. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
2. Hunters in the Snow – Pieter Bruegel the Elder
3. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer
https://www.kooness.com/posts/magazine/oil-painting-different-artists-and-unique-
techniques#:~:text=Leonardo%20da%20Vinci's%20iconic%20work,ever%20to%20have
%20been%20created.

Pastel

 Meaning – pastel dry drawing medium is executed with fragile, finger size-sticks. This medium is
made of powdered pigments combines with a minimum of nongreasy binder.
 Description – Pastel is fabricated from one or several finely ground pigments, a pulverized inert
white filler such as ground calcium carbonate or kaolin, and a minuscule amount of binder such
as gum tragacanth. The powdered ingredients are combined and rolled into sticks of colored
powder, the consistency of which must be sufficiently cohesive to allow them to be grasped
between the fingers, yet crumble when stroked across a support. Pastel is usually drawn on
paper, which must have a slight texture or “tooth” to grab and hold the medium on its surface .
https://www.britannica.com/art/pastel-art
 Notable Works/Artists
1. Mother Combing Sara’s Hair by Mary Cassatt (1901)
2. Prima Ballerina by Edgar Degas (1876)
 3. Bouquet of Flower by Odilon Redon (1900-1905) https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-
met/collection-areas/drawings-and-prints/materials-and-techniques/drawing/pastel

Tempera

 Meaning – painting executed with pigment ground in a water-miscible

medium. The word tempera originally came from the verb temper, “to
bring to a desired consistency.”
 Description - True tempera is made by mixture with the yolk of fresh eggs,
although manuscript illuminators often used egg white and some easel
painters added the whole egg. https://britannica.com/topic/thang-ka
 Notable Works/Artists
1. Madonna and Chils by Duccio di Buoninsgena (1300)
2. The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello (1435-1460)
3. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1484-1486)
https://www.identifythisart.com/identify-fresco-tempera-and-oil-paintings/iconic-15-
tempera-paintings/

Watercolor

 Meaning – paint made with water soluble binder such as gum Arabic, thinned with water rather
than oil, which gives it a transparent color
 Description – Water based medium that is applied by a brush that has a transparent colors.
 Notable Works/Artists
1. Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda by Winslow Homer (1899)
2. The Watzmann seen from the North-east and some Sketches of a Mountain by August
Heinrich (1820)
3. The Lake of Zug bu Joseph Mallord William Turner (1843)
https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/Collection-Areas/drawings-and-prints/
materials-and-techniques/drawing/watercolor#:~:text=Prized%20for%20the%20luminosity
%20of,brush%2C%20typically%20to%20white%20paper.
