Medium Monday: Digital Art
What is Digital Art? Digital art is an image that is created using a digital device like a computer, phone, or tablet. All the other media in this blog series…
Medium Monday: Gouache
What is Gouache? Gouache is the only medium in this series that I have not personally worked with. It is pigment with a water soluble binding agent, just like watercolor,…
Medium Monday: Pastel
What is Pastel? No, not the pale color schemes you see in the spring! Pastels, the art medium, are similar to chalk. Pigmented powder and a touch of a binding…
Medium Monday: Pen & Ink
What is Pen & Ink? "Pen & Ink" is a common way to refer to the field of ink drawing, especially when using a dip or fountain pen. Ink is…
Medium Monday: 3D and Unusual Media
What is 3D and Unusual Media? 3D art is anything that isn't flat. This includes traditional sculpture (like clay or stone), as well as diorama-style setups, knitting and sewing, and…
Medium Monday: Oil Paint
What Is Oil Paint? Oil paint is simply pigment mixed into an oil medium, often linseed oil. Most famous artists of history used oil paint. Oil paint is similar to…
Medium Monday: Charcoal and Graphite
What is Charcoal? What is Graphite? Charcoal and graphite are both made of carbon, but the element is structured differently for each. This means that graphite and charcoal have different…
Medium Monday: Acrylic Paint
What Is Acrylic Paint? Art supplies get their color from pigment. That pigment can be mixed with a "medium," which changes the way the pigment is handled. In the case…
Medium Monday: Papercraft
What Is Papercraft? Papercraft, broadly speaking, is a work of art that is created out of paper. The interesting thing about papercraft is its variety of forms. There is the…
Medium Monday: Printmaking
What Is Printmaking? E. B. Goodale uses monotype prints in The Moon Remembers Printmaking is actually an umbrella term for several different methods. At the most basic level, it is…
Medium Monday: Colored Pencil
What Is Colored Pencil? Colored pencils are just what they sound like. A thin outer layer of wood makes a stylus with a pigmented core that leaves a mark when…
Medium Monday: Watercolor
What Is Watercolor? Watercolor paint usually comes as a solid cake or a tube of gel. Both substances are a highly concentrated pigment, meant to be diluted with water. The…