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tags: Surrealism
list of techniques
- Blotting - subtractive technique that involves removing or displacing paint using an absorbent material such as cloth or rag.
- Cartoon - full scale preparatory drawings used to transfer a design to a support such as a wall, canvas, tapestry or panel.
- Decalcomania - an automatic technique in which one material is pressed against a freshly painted or inked surface and then removed.
- Erasure - involves removing drawing media like graphite with a rubber or eraser.
- Grattage - consists of abrading or scraping away paint with a sharp of flat-edged object such as a palette knife.
- Hatching - using closely spaced drawn or painted parallel lines to create tonal, shading or modeling effects in typically line-based media.
- Incising - scratch marks made with the gesso.
- Inlay - inserting a piece of rigid material — usually a piece of shell, bone or wood veneer - so that it is flush with another surface in order to create a seamless design.
- Sanding - a process used to progressively smooth the finish of a supporting layer.
- Scumbling - application of a thin coat of opaque paint to soften or dull the effect of an area.
- Sgraffito - scratching through the surface layer to reveal a contrasting color underneath.
- Smudging - smearing a medium
- Soufflage - paint thinned to a fluid consistency and then moved with blown air to create abstract blotches or patterns.
- Spattering - a fluid or thinned paint is sprayed onto a support, often by flicking bristles of a stiff brush.
- Sponging - additive technique that uses a porous material to apply paint, which takes on that texture.
- Squaring - sometimes used for a scaling up a drawing, a grid is used to transfer a design from one surface to another.
- Stippling - application technique that uses tiny dots to create light and shadow.
- Textured Gesso - gesso is modeled with a brush to create a low-relief image or pattern.
- Thinning - adding a diluent or varnish to create a more fluid consistency.
- Tideline - effects caused by thinned paint pooling and drying slightly more thickly on the edges.
- Transfer - graphite underdrawings applied to a support by means of an intermediary sketch or cartoon rather than directly.
- Underdrawing - drawings used as guides when painting
- Varnishing - application or a resin, coating or varnish to the surface of an artwork.
from pliny the elder’s natural history according to this story, both Zeuxis and Parrhasius were artists who aggreed to a competition to decide who was the best - as in the most realistic of painters. Zeuxis presented first; his paint of grapes in a bowl exhibited such realism that birds attempted to eat them. Filled with pride at his achievement he requested Parrhasius lift the veil covering his work - only to find that the veil did not exist, but was painted by Parrhasius. Having been deceived by the work himself, Zeuxis conceded victory.
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