Paintings:
Acrylic Paintings
Acrylic is a popular and versatile painting medium, using pigments
dispersed in a polymethyl methacrylate vehicle. Acrylic paintings
are generally less translucent than oil paintings.
Gouache
Gouache paintings use an opaque watercolor paint that creates a
light reflection due to its slight chalky finish.
Watercolors
Watercolour paintings are generally characterized by luminous
transparency. These artworks are created by a paint medium that
consists of pigment dispersed in gum arabic.
Oil Paintings
Considered as the standard medium for paintings, since the sixteenth
century, Oil Paintings are the most popular and luminous of all
paintings. Oil paintings are created using paint made from ground
pigments suspended in oil, usually linseed. With its slow drying
qualities, the artist alters the art until the desired effect is
achieved.
Art Prints:
Lithographys
Lithographs are Fine Art Prints created by a printmaking process
based on the repellence of oil and water. The limited-edition
lithograph print is actually made by pressing paper against the
inked drawing, created on the stone or metal, by the printmaker.
Etchings
Etchings are Fine Art Prints created by the painstaking process
of using lines drawn by the artist onto a printing plate. Once
the inked plate and paper are pulled through a press, the
resulting print is a reversed copy of the drawing on the plate.
Screenprint
Screenprinting developed as an artistic medium and a sophisticated
printmaking technique after World War I and was popularised by the
Pop artist Andy Warhol. The artist prepares a fine screen of silk
or nylon for printing by blocking off the areas where the paper
will be left blank. This allows the ink to pass through only the
areas where the image is to be printed.
