List 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.
Art techniques
A
- Airbrushing technique
- Aerial perspective technique
- Acrylic painting techniques
- Aging technique
- Aquatint
- Assemblage technique
- Animation
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 painting technique
- En résille enameling technique
- Etching technique
F
- Fat over lean
- Faux painting
- Fingerpaint
- Fresco
- Froissage
- Fresco-secco
G
- Gilding technique
- Glassblowing
- Glaze
- Gongbi
- Gradation
- Grattage
- Grisaille
H
- Haboku
- Hierarchical proportion
I
- Illusionistic ceiling painting
- Impasto
- Intaglio 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
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
- Transfer technique
- Trompe-l'œil technique
U
- Underpainting
V
- Verdaille
W
- Watercolor painting
- Welded sculpture technique
- Wet-on-wet
- Wire sculpture
- Wood engraving technique
- Woodblock printing
X