List of art techniques

Types of art techniques There is no exact definition of what constitutes art. Artists have explored many styles and have used many different techniques to create art.

A

• Airbrushing technique
• Aerial perspective technique
• Acrylic painting techniques
• Aging (artwork) technique
• Aquatint
• Assemblage (art) technique
• Animation (digital art)

B

• Basse-taille enameling technique
• Burnishing
• Freehand brush work

C

• Camaïeu technique
• Cast paper
• Ceramic forming techniques
• Cerography
• Champlevé
• Chiaroscuro technique
• Cloisonné
• Collage
• Contour drawing technique
• Contour rivalry
• Crosshatching

D

• Dalle de verre
• Décollage technique
• Digital painting technique
• Distressing technique
• Divisionism technique
• Drip painting
• Droste effect
• Drybrush
• Dye-sublimation technique

E

• Embossing technique
• Encaustic (hot wax) painting technique
• En résille enameling technique
• Etching technique

F

• Fat over lean
• Faux painting
• Fingerpaint
• Fresco
• Froissage
• Fresco-secco

G

• Gilding technique
• Glassblowing
• Glaze (painting technique)
• Gongbi
• Gradation
• Grattage
• Grisaille

H

• Haboku
• Hierarchical proportion

I

• Illusionistic ceiling painting
• Impasto
• Intaglio (printmaking) technique
• Ink wash painting technique

J

K

• Keum-boo gilding technique

L

• Linocut technique
• Lithography
• Lost-wax casting

M

• Metalcut technique
• Mosaic art technique
• Multidimensional art
• Mural Painting technique

N

• Nerikomi artistic technique

O

• Oblique projection

P

• Paint by number
• Paper craft
• Pholage artistic technique
• Plique-à-jour enameling technique
• Pointillé technique
• Pointillism
• Pouncing technique
• Pencil shading

Q

R

• Rapid visualization graphic artist technique
• Relief art technique
• Relief printing technique
• Repoussé and chasing technique
• Resin art technique
• Rubbing (art)

S

• Scratchitti graffiti
• Scratchboard
• Screen printing technique
• Screentone texture technique
• Sfumato technique
• Shading
• Sgraffito technique
• Soft sculpture
• Spray painting technique
• stippling
• still life

T

• Tarashikomi
• Texture (painting)
• Transfer technique (drawing)
• Trompe-l'œil technique

U

• Underpainting

V

• Verdaille (green shades technique)

W

• Watercolor painting
• Welded sculpture technique
• Wet-on-wet
• Wire sculpture
• Wood engraving technique
• Woodblock printing

X

Y

Z

• Art movement
• Creativity techniques
• Hockney–Falco thesis
• Kalliroscope
• List of art media
• List of artistic media
• List of art movements
• List of most expensive paintings
• List of most expensive sculptures
• List of sculptors