Unusual Painting Techniques
There are as many techniques for painting as there are artists. Artists are constantly developing new ways of doing things in order to achieve a specific effect or as experimentation. For example, the Abstract Expressionists broke European tradition in the 1940s with their use of materials and process—using house paints and house painting brushes, and pouring, flinging, and dripping paint. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History says about Abstract Expressionists:...