Welcome to
The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Techniques
Memorizing the name of every painting technique ever devised won't make you a painter. However, if a technique has earned a name, it's probably useful. Check these out.
- alla prima, or au premier coup
- assemblage
- broken colour
- chiaroscuro
- collage
- drybrushing
- glazing
- grisaille
- hard-edge painting
- hatching
- impasto
- imprimatura
- (painting in) layers
- optical blending
- en plein air
- Pointillism
- scumbling
- sfumato
- sgraffito
- smooth blending
- trompe l'oeil
Back to the main lesson?Art & Text (C) Linda Carson 2002
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