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  2. Acrylic painting techniques - Wikipedia

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    This painting was made by combining poured acrylic paint with impasto painting. Pour painting is an innovative way to use acrylic paints to create an art piece. Instead of using tools like brushes or knives to create a piece of art, fluid paints can be poured directly onto the surface and the canvas tilted to move the paint around.

  3. Conservation and restoration of paintings - Wikipedia

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    Mummy portrait of a girl, AD 120–150, Roman Egypt, wax encaustic painting on sycamore wood. Encaustic is a method of painting that involves dry pigments mixed with hot beeswax, then applied to the surface of a support such as wood or canvas. A completed painting is then finished by taking a source of heat to reheat the surface and fuse it ...

  4. Support (art) - Wikipedia

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    Canvas board, a piece of canvas mounted onto a paper board, provides another low-cost alternative for sketches. [3] The hardwood (oak, birch, poplar) panel was the original choice of support for painters in the ancient times. Masonite is the modern engineered wood that is also used for painting. Many contemporary artists still use panels due to ...

  5. Acrylic paint - Wikipedia

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    An acrylic sizing should be used to prime canvas in preparation for painting with acrylic paints, to prevent Support Induced Discoloration (SID). Acrylic paint contains surfactants that can pull up discoloration from a raw canvas, especially in transparent glazed or translucent gelled areas.

  6. Painting - Wikipedia

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    Action painting, sometimes called gestural abstraction, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. [68] The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist.

  7. Lining of paintings - Wikipedia

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    The new lining canvas was pressed down onto the back of the picture by hand; then the outer edges of the lining cloth were fastened to the table by means of a large number of tacks, and a piece of wood with a rounded edge was passed over the back of the cloth, to ensure perfect adhesion.

  8. Encaustic painting - Wikipedia

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    Encaustic art has seen a resurgence in popularity since the 1990s, with artists using electric irons, hotplates and heated styli on different surfaces, including card, paper, and even pottery, and wax crayons started to be used as an inexpensive and accessible medium for crafting and art education [13]. The iron makes producing a variety of ...

  9. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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    Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel or copper for several centuries. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser color, the use ...

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