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1 Architecture  





2 Carpentry  





3 Ceramics  





4 Drawing  



4.1  Common drawing materials  





4.2  Common supports (surfaces) for drawing  





4.3  Common drawing tools and methods  







5 Electronic  





6 Film  





7 Food  





8 Glass  





9 Installation  





10 Literature  



10.1  Traditional writing media  





10.2  Common bases for writing  







11 Natural world  





12 Painting  



12.1  Common paint media  





12.2  Uncommon paint media  





12.3  Supports for painting  





12.4  Common tools and methods  





12.5  Mural techniques  





12.6  Graphic narrative media  







13 Performing arts  





14 Photography  





15 Printmaking  





16 Sculpture  



16.1  Materials  



16.1.1  Carving media  





16.1.2  Casting media  





16.1.3  Modeling media  





16.1.4  Assembled media  





16.1.5  Finishing materials  







16.2  Tools  







17 Sound  





18 Technical products  





19 Textiles  





20 See also  





21 References  





22 External links  














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Arts media are the materials and tools used by an artist, composerordesignertocreateawork of art,[1] for example, "pen and ink" where the pen is the tool and the ink is the material. The following lists types of art and the media each uses.

Architecture[edit]

Carpentry[edit]

Ceramics[edit]

Drawing[edit]

Common drawing materials[edit]

  • Chalk
  • Charcoal
  • Colored pencil
  • Conté
  • Crayon
  • Encaustic
  • Fresco
  • Gouache
  • Graphite
  • Ink
  • Intaglio
  • Oil paint
  • Glass paint
  • Pastel
  • Pixel
  • Printmaking
  • Sketch
  • Tempera
  • Watercolor
  • Glitter
  • Common supports (surfaces) for drawing[edit]

  • Card stock
  • Concrete
  • Fabric
  • Glass
  • Human body
  • Metal
  • Paper
  • Papyrus
  • Parchment
  • Plaster
  • Scratchboard
  • Stone
  • Vellum
  • Wood
  • Common drawing tools and methods[edit]

  • Finger
  • Pen
  • Ballpoint pen
  • Eraser
  • Erasing shield
  • Fountain pen
  • Gel pen
  • Kneaded eraser
  • Technical pen
  • Marker
  • Pencil
  • Mechanical pencil (clutch, screw, and ratchet)
  • Colored pencil
  • Stylus
  • Charcoal
  • Electronic[edit]

    Film[edit]

    Film, as a form of mass communication, is itself also considered a medium in the sense used by fields such as sociology and communication theory (see also mass media). These two definitions of medium, while they often overlap, are different from one another: television, for example, utilizes the same types of artistic media as film, but may be considered a different medium from film within communication theory.[2]

    Food[edit]

    A chef's tools and equipment, including ovens, stoves, grills, and griddles. Specialty equipment may be used, including salamanders, French tops, woks, tandoors, and induction burners.

    Glass[edit]

    Glassblowing, Glass fusing, colouring and marking methods.

    Installation[edit]

    Installation art is a site-specific form of sculpture that can be created with any material. An installation can occupy a large amount of space, create an ambience, transform/disrupt the space, exist in the space. One way to distinguish an installation from a sculpture (this may not apply to every installation) is to try to imagine it in a different space. If the objects present difficulties in a different space than the original, it is probably an installation.

    Literature[edit]

    Traditional writing media[edit]

    Common bases for writing[edit]

    Natural world[edit]

    Painting[edit]

    Common paint media[edit]

  • Blacklight paint
  • Encaustic paint
  • Fresco
  • Gesso
  • Glaze
  • Gouache
  • Ink
  • Latex paint
  • Oil paint
  • Primer
  • Ink wash (sumi-e)
  • Temperaorposter paint
  • Vinyl paint (toxic/poisonous)[clarification needed]
  • Vitreous enamel
  • Watercolor
  • Uncommon paint media[edit]

  • Solar energy
  • Garlic
  • Rust
  • Coffee
  • Onion
  • Coconut juice
  • Mud
  • Black palm
  • Tomato
  • Soy sauce
  • Staple wire[clarification needed]
  • Ochre (Yellow, red, white or charcoal)
  • Supports for painting[edit]

  • Canvas
  • Ceramics
  • Cloth
  • Glass
  • Human body (typically for tattoos)
  • Metal
  • Paper
  • Paperboard
  • Vellum
  • Wall
  • Wood
  • Common tools and methods[edit]

    Mural techniques[edit]

    Muralists use many of the same media as panel painters, but due to the scale of their works, use different techniques. Some such techniques include:

    Graphic narrative media[edit]

    Comics creators use many of the same media as traditional painters.

    Performing arts[edit]

    The performing arts is a form of entertainment that is created by the artist's own body, face and presence as a medium. There are many skills and genresofperformance; dance, theatre and re-enactment being examples. Performance art is a performance that may not present a conventional formal linear narrative.

    Photography[edit]

    Inphotographyaphotosensitive surface is used to capture an optical still image, usually utilizing a lens to focus light. Some media include:

    Printmaking[edit]

    In the art of printmaking, "media" tends to refer to the technique used to create a print. Common media include:

  • Collotype
  • Computer printing
  • Embossing
  • Engraving
  • Etching
  • Intaglio (printmaking)
  • Letterpress (literature)
  • Linocut
  • Lithography
  • Mezzotint
  • Moku hanga
  • Monotype
  • Offset printing
  • Photographic printing
  • Planographic printing
  • Printing press
  • Relief printing
  • Screen-printing
  • Woodblock printing
  • Sculpture[edit]

    Insculpting, a solid structure and textured surface is shaped or combined using substances and components, to form a three-dimensional object. The size of a sculptured work can be built very big and could be considered as architecture, although more commonly a large statueorbust, and can be crafted very small and intricate as jewellery, ornaments and decorative reliefs.

    Materials[edit]

    Carving media[edit]

  • Bronze
  • Gemstones
  • Glass
  • Granite
  • Ice
  • Ivory
  • Marble
  • Plaster
  • Stone
  • Wax
  • Wood
  • Casting media[edit]

    Modeling media[edit]

    Assembled media[edit]

  • Corrugated fiberboard (cardboard)
  • Edible material
  • Foil
  • Found objects
  • Glue and other adhesives
  • Paperboard
  • Textile
  • Wire
  • Wood
  • Finishing materials[edit]

    Tools[edit]

  • Chisel and hammer (modern pneumatic)
  • Clamporvise
  • Hammerormallet (modern pneumatic)
  • Kiln for heating ceramics and metals
  • Knife
  • Pliers
  • Potter's wheel
  • Power tools
  • Sandpaper
  • Saw
  • Scraper
  • Snips
  • Welding and cutting torch
  • Wirecutter
  • Sound[edit]

    The art of sound can be singular or a combination of speech or objects and crafted instruments, to create sounds, rhythms and music for a range of sonic hearing purposes. See also music and sound art.

    Technical products[edit]

    The use of technical products as an art medium is a merging of applied art and science, that may involve aesthetics, efficiency and ergonomics using various materials.

    Textiles[edit]

    In the art of textiles a soft and flexible material of fibersoryarn is formed by spinning wool, flax, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel and crocheting, knitting, macramé (knotting), weaving, or pressing fibres together (felt) to create a work.

    See also[edit]

  • Conceptual art
  • Decorative arts
  • Design tool
  • Fashion design
  • Fine art
  • Fire performance
  • Fresco
  • Graffiti
  • Graphic arts
  • Liberal arts
  • List of pen types, brands and companies
  • Medium specificity
  • Mixed media
  • Multimedia
  • New materials in 20th-century art
  • Plastic arts
  • Publishing
  • Pyrotechnics
  • Recording medium
  • Stationery
  • Video game art
  • References[edit]

    1. ^ Tate. "Medium – Art Term". Tate. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
  • ^ Martin Lister; Jon Dovey; Seth Giddings; Iain Grant; Kieran Kelly. New Media: A Critical Introduction (PDF) (2nd ed.).
  • External links[edit]


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