Styles

Consider your artistic style and what you want the final work to look like. Not everyone is going to paint realistically like the Renaissance masters. Consider goals for the skills you want to work on. Study those of past and present painters and figure out who you align your style with.

• Realism-subjects have realistic colors, forms, and settings.

• Abstraction-colors and forms are not recognizable, but still imply the meaning of the concept or are based off of real imagery.

• Impressionism-subjects and forms have the 'impression' of realistic form and settings, but colors are exaggerated.

• Folk Art-encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic.