Painting

Well i like to share  some of the things about painting and different types of medium used for painting which i came across other day on the internet..

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects may be used. In art the term describes both the act and the result which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay,copper or concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials including sand, clay, paper, gold leaf as well as objects.

Painting is a mode of expression and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature.

Different artists use different Painting Media to express their creativity.  While some artists find il painting most suitable to their style, some prefer watercolors.  In fact it is said that if an artists finds the painting media most suitable to his or her style then half the work is done. A Mona Lisa wouldn't have been the same had it not been oil on wood panel.  The decision of choosing a media is a big one for any artist. He first has to decide on his or her theme, think about the style he or she is going to employ to bring the idea into the canvas and then make the final decision of choosing the painting media. Though most artists dabble with different medias it is said that they can give their best to only one.                                The creative freedom of painting is such that an artist can choose almost any media to express his or her work. One just needs to have the eye to see the possibilities; the whole world is the canvas for someone with an artistic temperament. To limit art to only few chosen media would be doing it a grave injustice. Painting Mediatoday are rightly, as eclectic as possible; artists around the world are not only experimenting with the form but the media too.   From a palm leaf to a T-shirt our creative impulses have made us seek art in the most unlikeliest of places or should we say the likeliest?  Acrylic Painting Canvas Painting Charcoal Painting Dyed Fabric Painting Fabric Painting Fresco Graffiti Gemstone Painting Glass Painting Gouache Ink Painting Marble Paintings Oil Pastel PalmLeaf Paintings Paper Painting Pottery Painting Sand Paintings Silk Paintings Sketching Soft Pastel StainGlass Painting Tempera WatercolorPaintings Wax Painting Wood Paintings

In The Next Post i shall give in detail about the rest of the Painting Medium in details