Art Materials
As artists, we use such a wide variety of art materials that it can be really confusing to make your decisions. These pages are meant to offer you some insight into all kinds of art materials from brushes, to paints, pencils and pastels, to papers, canvas and boards.
In the arts, the word “medium” is used to refer to the materials and techniques used by an artist to produce that particular work. The plural of “medium” is “media”. So a painter might use oil, acrylic, gouache or watercolor as her medium. Some artists use a variety of media to execute their work, hence the term “mixed media”.
As always if you have a favorite medium you’d like to share which hasn’t been mentioned here, please let us know.
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