Acrylic
The Morning After the Snowstorm, Ray Hassard
Acrylic paint combines pigment with a fast-drying acrylic binder. It can produce effects ranging from thin, transparent washes to thick, textured layers.
Charcoal
The Cider Jug, Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
Charcoal is a drawing medium made from carbonized wood. Its deep blacks can be blended, layered, or erased to create expressive lines, dramatic contrast, and soft tonal shading.
Collage
Difficult, Kurt Schwitters
Collage is created by arranging and attaching materials such as paper, photographs, fabric, or found objects to a surface. Artists may cut, tear, layer, and overlap these elements to create texture, imagery, and meaning. The technique can transform ordinary materials into an entirely new and unified composition.
Flashe is a vinyl-based paint known for its rich, opaque color and smooth, ultra-matte finish. It dries quickly and can be applied to many surfaces, producing flat, even areas of color with little or no reflection.
Gouache combines pigment with a water-soluble binder but contains more pigment than watercolor. It produces opaque color and a smooth, matte finish.
Flashe on linen
Stork, Brian Scott Campbell
Gouache on linen
Day in Midwinter, Charles Burchfield
Pastels are made from powdered pigment combined with a small amount of binder and formed into sticks or pencils. They produce rich color, soft blending, expressive marks, and a distinctive velvety texture.
Pastel
Dancer reading, Edgar Degas
Photography is the art of creating images by capturing light with a camera. Artists use composition, lighting, perspective, timing, and digital or traditional processes to interpret and communicate what they see.
Watercolor paint combines pigment with a water-soluble binder, usually gum arabic. Its transparent washes allow light to reflect through the paper, creating luminous color and delicate layers.
Photography
The Tetons and Snake River, Ansel Adams
Watercolor
Snowdon through Clearing Clouds, Alfred William Hunt