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Painting is the practice of using paint, pigment, colors or other means to a surface and usually with a brush, but other tools, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, are possible applicators.

The practice pertains to not only the process but the final project and applies to the conclusion when used on walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper, and concrete.

The entire artwork could be the outcome of one method or a combination of other applications using canvas, sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and other entities.

Many types of paintings are not limited by processes using oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastels, charcoal, gouache, encaustic, and even spray paint to name a few.