I made a list of 30 art techniques I use often (in bold) and on occasion (in cursive)
Techniques in Fine Art
- Acrylic painting (with water based paints that use acrylic polymer as a binder);
- Aerial perspective (adjusting colors to mimic those changes by the atmosphere at a distance);
- Aquarelle or watercolor (with water based paints that use soluble gum arabic from acacia or a substitute as a binder);
- Assemblage (assembling three-dimensional objects);
- Charcoal drawing (applying burnt wood);
- Chiaroscuro (working from mid-tone toward light and shadows, using strong contrasts between light and dark);
- Collage (application of pieces of colored paper and other flattened objects);
- Contour drawing (outline);
- Digital painting (applying digital inks to screens with stylus or fingers);
- Divisionism (separation of color for optical effects, including pointillism - applying dots of color, usually by stippling);
- Drybrush (applying paint so it is only partially covers the previous one);
- Foreshortening (rendering figures in depth with realistic perspective, especially from unusual points of view);
- Glazing and washing (coating with transparent paint);
- Gouache (natural gum as binder with opaque white base pigment);
- Grisaille (underpainting in value only, with shades and tints of one color, black camaieu, or in yellow - cirage);
- Hatching (shading with closely spaced parallel lines, and with cross-hatching the lines overlay at an angle);
- Dabbing (quickly applying paint with stiff brushes or other object with light pressure, like playing staccato on piano);
- Impasto (paint applied to stand out from the surface);
- Murals (painting ol walls and ceilings);
- Pastel (applying powdered pigment molded into a stick);
- Pen and ink (applying pigment ink with sticks, dip and fountain pens, brushes, and other implements, like parallel and technical pens);
- Perspective (depicting three-dimensional objects and space on surface with an illusion of real volume);
- Plein-air (painting outdoors or creating an impression of the open air);
- Sfumato (blurring or softening of sharp outlines by gradual blending of one tone into another);
- Sgraffito (scratch away paint to expose the underlayer);
- Spray and splatter;
- Tachisme and action painting (spontaneous application of paint, dripping and spilling);
- Tenebrism (dramatic illumination);
- Underpainting ((pre-painting of the first layer, often with contrasting colors to show through);
- Wet-on-wet (wet paint is applied onto wet layers).