Category: art techniques and media...

the opportunity to go to an art school
commissioning a favorite artist to paint a portrait or scene for you
being locked in the Art Institute of Chicago for a night
ikebana -- the Japanese art of flower arranging
dabbling in drawing, perspective, watercolor, pastels, oil painting, acrylics, and mixed media
Painting isn't just daydreaming, it is primarily a manual skill, and one has to be a good workman. (Renoir)
by understanding the materials or techniques at his or her disposal, the artist can avoid pitfalls and increase the pleasure of making art
art -- a partnership between personal vision and technical ability
Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. (T. Merton)
The secret of life is in art. (O. Wilde)
All art requires courage. (A. Tucker)
assembling one's materials to do art -- the canvas, paints, brushes, easel, mixing board, palette knife, cloths, art smock -- and, of course, the subject
gesso pronounced jess-o, gouache is gwahsh, intaglio is in-TowL-yo