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What do you call work in the different mediums - time for some clarification perhaps?
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I never know what to call some work when I comment on the gallery. I can easily call an oil, watercolour or acrylic a 'painting' because that is what it is. However, is a pastel a painting? Is digital work a painting? What is a work done in coloured pencils called? I end up calling them all 'paintings' but they aren't.
Should only work produced with paint and a brush be called a painting? If so, what do we call the rest?
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Pastels are normally called paintings - why? Um..... Yes, well that's an excellent question. I think because it's applied in broad swipes of colour (usually) rather than (again usually) drawn in as you would with coloured pencil.
I would call drawings in coloured pencil drawings, personally. Digital work - well: perhaps that's best answered by those who produce work in that medium - not having done it, I don't really understand the skills involved. I remember Skylar Brown saying that the same methods would be applied to a digital painting as you would to a painting in oil or acrylic .... in principle that may be true, with the rather obvious difference that one wouldn't be using actual brushes. I find myself a bit confused on this front..