Painting Techniques

The methods used to apply pigment to a support to make a painted work, spanning the major painting media this atlas tracks. Belongs here: methods such as fresco, tempera, oil painting, watercolor and encaustic, and technique-level practices such as glazing and impasto. Does not belong here: the dry, hand-applied methods grouped under Drawing Techniques, and the plate-based methods grouped under Printmaking Techniques. This is a grouping node for painting technique as a whole, distinct from any single named painting or painter entity elsewhere in the atlas.