PAINTING

Painting Is a mode of creative expression. It’s an art form which gives us the
freedom of expressing our thoughts on a canvas with the help of colors and a
brush.

Famous Painting

Mona Lisa
The best known, the most visited, the most
written about, the most sung about, the most
parodied work of art in the world is Mona Lisa,
portrait of a woman by the Italian artist
Leonardo da Vinci.

The Card Players

The most expensive painting is The Card
Players by Paul Cezanne, which was sold for a
record price of more than $250 million in 2011.

Shakuntala

One of the most famous Indian Painting is

Shakuntala by Raja Ravi Varma. It’s a
beautiful painting, where the gorgeous
Shankuntala is pretending to get rid of thorn
from her foot.

Different types of painting Techniques and style

1. OIL PAINTING
 The paints are made by mixing
pigments with drying oils like
poppy seed oil, walnut oil, linseed
oil, and safflower oil.
2. WATERCOLOR PAINTING
 Is one of the famous painting
techniques that create
captivating art.
 Highly soluble in water and are by
combining pigments and binders.

3. PASTEL PAINTING
 Is a form of painting sticks involves
the use of pastel sticks made from
powdered pigment and binder.
 Types of pastel: Soft, Hard, Oil,
and pan Pastel.

4. DIGITAL PAINTING
 Is the modern type of painting
techniques that uses technology
to create impressive art.

5. ACRYLIC PAINTING
 One of the very common type of
paintings, uses fast-drying acrylic
colors to create a wonderful art
piece.

6. SAND PAINTING
 Sand painting or dry painting is
one of unique forms of painting
art that involves pouring colored
sand to create a painting.
 The paint used in sand painting is
made by mixing crushed,
colored sandstone, charcoal,
pollen, or other dry material.
 7. SPRAY PAINTING
 I s a different painting style that
uses a device to spray the paint.
 Aerosol paint- is commonly
used as the medium in spray
painting.

8. GRAFFITI
 Is a type of art that is used as a
form of expressing thoughts, emotions, and messages to people.

Styles of painting

1.) Modernism

 Is a type of art that is used as a form of expressing thoughts, emotions, and

messages to people.

2.) Impressionism

 This art form originated in Paris in the late 19th century. Some of the features
of Impressionism include the use of common and ordinary objects, thin
brush strokes, unusual angles.
3.) Abstract Art

 Any artistic expression of reality that is illustrated but not in its truest form can
be considered as an Abstract form of art. It is the true product of radical
thought.

4.) Expressionism
 Abstract style of art takes on many forms and ‘expressionism’ is one of them.
The overflow of human emotions is portrayed through the artist’s point of
view.
5.) Cubism
 Paul Cezanne, a famous artist once said – “Everything in nature takes its
form from the cylinder, the cone or the sphere.” Interestingly, this later
turned into the basis of ‘cubism’. This is another expression of abstract art
and geometrical shapes form a very important part of this style.

6.) Surrealism

 Surrealism was a movement that sprung to light in the 20th century, in

France. This art form sought to release the creative potential of the mind,
by irrational juxtaposition of images.

Tools for painting

 Paint Brush

 Paint colors

 Paper/canvas, metal, plastic, wood

 Other materials

Other material that you can use: