Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface in very thick

layers, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be
mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out
of the canvas.

Scumbling is a painting technique in which a layer of broken, speckled, or scratchy color is added
over another color so that bits of the lower layer(s) of color

Drybrush is a painting technique in which a paint brush that is relatively dry, but still holds paint, is
used. Load is applied to a dry support such as paper or primed canvas. The resulting brush strokes
have a characteristic scratchy look that lacks the smooth appearance that washes or blended paint
commonly have.

Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), direct painting or au premier coup, is
a painting technique in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers
of wet paint.

Chiaroscuro, in art, is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts
affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the
use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and
figures.

Sgraffito, (Italian: “scratched”), in the visual arts, a technique used in painting,

pottery, and glass, which consists of putting down a preliminary surface,
covering it with another, and then scratching the superficial layer in such a
way that the pattern or shape that emerges is of the lower colour.

A glaze is a thin transparent or semi-transparent layer on a painting which

modifies the appearance of the underlying paint layer. Glazes can change the
chroma, value, hue and texture of a surface. Glazes consist of a great amount
of binding medium in relation to a very small amount of pigment.
Pointillism (/ˈpɔɪntɪlɪzəm/) is a technique of painting in which small, distinct
dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and
Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.

Broken color in art refers to the technique of building up layers of

different colors on the canvas in a way which allows lower layers to be
exposed. ... It allowed them to quickly fill the canvas with color and capture
the fleeting nature of light.