List of painting topics

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Below is a list of topics in painting.

• Abstraction
• Academy
• Acrylic paint
• Airbrush
• Altarpiece
• Appreciation
• Aquarelle
• Atmospheric perspective

• Bloom
• Body
• Brush

• Canvas
• Chiaroscuro
• Color
• Color theory (hue, tint, tone, value)
• Crayon

• Drawing
• Drying oil

• Easel
• Egg tempera
• Encaustic

• Fresco
• Frottage

• Gesso
• Glair
• Glaze
• Gouache
• Ground

• Hard-edge painting
• Hierarchy of genres
• History painting

• Impasto
• Imprimatura
• Ink

• Key

• Landscape
• Line
• Lyricism

• Maulstick
• Mastic
• Mineral spirits
• Model

• Oil painting

• Paint
• Painter
• Painterly
• Panel painting
• Pastel
• Palette
• Palette knife
• Pencil crayon
• Perspective
• Pigment
• Portrait
• Preservation

• Salon
• Sfumato
• Shading
• Sketch
• Solvent
• Spatial organization
• Still life

• Tempera
• Texture
• Turpentine

• Underpainting

• Valuing
• Varnish
• Veduta (plural vedute)

• Wash
• Watercolor

[edit] See also

Art techniques and materials

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