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Art media is the material used by an artist, composer or designer to create a work of art. This is a list of types of art and the materials used within those types.

Architecture

• 
  cement, concrete, mortar
  


• cob


• glass


• metal


• 
  stone, brick
  


• wood

Carpentry

• adhesives


• 
  wood (timber)

Ceramics

• bone china


• clay


• glaze


• porcelain


• pottery


• terracotta

Drawing

Traditional drawing media

• acrylic paint


• airbrush


• chalk


• charcoal


• conté


• crayon


• oil pastel


• soft pastel


• gouache


• graphite


• human finger


• oil paint


• pastel


• 
  pen and ink
  
  • ballpoint pen
  
  
  • fountain pen
  
  
  • gel pen
  
  
  • technical pen
  
  
  • marker
  
  


• 
  pencil
  
  • coloured pencil


• sand


• tempera


• watercolor

Indigenous materials for painting

• human hair and blood


• various bodily fluids and excrement including elephant dung
  


• solar energy


• garlic


• rust


• coffee


• onion


• coconut juice


• mud


• black palm


• tomato


• soy sauce


• staple wire


• Ochre (Yellow,Red, White or charcoal

Common bases for drawing

• canvas


• card stock


• fabric


• glass


• human body


• metal


• paper


• plaster


• scratchboard


• vellum


• walls


• wood

Electronic

• 
  graphic art software and 3D computer graphics
  


• 
  word processors and desktop publishing software


• 
  digital photography and digital cinematography
  


• specialized input devices (e.g. variable pressure sensing tablets and touchscreens)


• digital printing


• programming languages

Film

• animation


• 
  computer animation and computer-generated imagery
  


• 
  Video art and its subsets single-channel video and video installation
  

Food

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

Glassblowing, colouring and marking methods

Installation

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.

Light

Literature

Traditional writing media

• 
  digital word processor
  


• 
  internet websites
  


• letterpress printing


• computer printers


• marker


• 
  pen and ink or *quill
  


• pencil

Common bases for writing

• card stock


• 
  paper, perhaps ruled
  


• vellum

Natural world

• floral design


• rock


• soil


• vegetation


• water

Painting

Traditional paint media

• Acrylic paint


• Blacklight paint


• Encaustic paint


• Fresco


• Gesso


• Glaze


• Gouache


• Ink


• 
  Latex paint


• Magna paint


• Oil paint


• Primer


• Stencil


• 
  Ink wash (sumi-e)


• 
  Tempera or poster paint
  


• 
  Vinyl paint (toxic/poisonous)


• Vitreous enamel


• Watercolor

Supports for painting

• Architectural structures


• Canvas


• Ceramics


• Cloth


• Glass


• 
  Human body (typically for tattoos)


• Metal


• Paper


• Paperboard


• Vellum


• Wall


• Wood

Traditional tools and methods

• Action painting


• Aerosol paint


• Airbrush


• Batik


• Brush


• Cloth


• 
  Paint roller or paint pad
  


• Palette knife


• Sponge

Mural techniques

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:

• Aerosol paint


• Digital painting


• Fresco


• Image projector


• Mosaic


• Pounce art

Graphic narrative media

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

Performing arts

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 genres of performance, dance, theatre and re-enactment being examples. Performance art is a performance that may not present a conventional formal linear narrative.

Photography

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

• Digital image sensor
  


• Photographic film


• Potassium dichromate


• 
  Potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate
  


• Silver nitrate

Printmaking

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

• Aquatint


• 
  Computer printing
  
  • Dye-sublimation printer
  
  
  • 
    Inkjet printer (sometimes called giclée printing)
  
  
  • Laser printer
  
  
  • Solid ink printer
  
  
  • Thermal printer
  
  


• Embossing


• Engraving


• Etching


• Intaglio (printmaking)


• 
  Letterpress (literature)


• Linocut


• Lithography


• Mezzotint


• Moku hanga


• Monotype


• Offset printing


• Photographic printing


• Planographic printing


• Printing press


• 
  Relief printing
  
  • Linocut
  
  
  • Metalcut
  
  
  • Relief etching
  
  
  • Wood engraving
  
  
  • Woodcut
  
  


• Screen-printing


• Woodblock printing

Sculpture

In sculpting, 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 statue or bust, and can be crafted very small and intricate as jewellery, ornaments and decorative reliefs.

Materials

Carving media

• Bone carving


• Bronze


• Gemstones


• Glass


• Granite


• Ice


• Ivory


• Marble


• Plaster


• Stone


• Wax


• Wood

Casting media

• Cement


• Ceramics


• Metal


• Plaster


• Plastic


• Synthetic resin


• Wax

Modeling media

• Clay


• Papier-mâché


• Plaster


• Sand


• Styrofoam

Assembled media

• Beads


• 
  Corrugated fiberboard (cardboard)


• 
  Edible material


• Foil


• Found objects


• 
  Glue and other adhesives
  


• Paperboard


• Textile


• Wire


• Wood

Finishing materials

• 
  Acids to create a patina (corrosive)


• Glaze


• Polychrome


• Wax

Tools

• 
  Bristle brush
  


• 
  Chisel and hammer (modern pneumatic)


• 
  Clamp or vise
  


• 
  Hammer or mallet (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

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

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

In the art of textiles a soft and flexible material of fibers or yarn 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

• Collage


• 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


• Mixed media


• Multimedia


• New materials in 20th-century art


• Plastic arts


• Publishing


• Pyrotechnics


• Recording medium


• Stationery


• Video game art

References

External links

• 
  Media (artists' materials) — definition from the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus.


• 
  Artistic Medium, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  

Look up media or medium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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