Artist In the arts, a medium is a material used by an artist or designer to create a work. In drawing, media refers to both the material that is manually applied and to the base onto which it is applied. The most commonly practiced form of drawing or sketching is with a pencil and paper, however the wide and varied use of materials applied can be graphite, pastel, and ink among other things. Bases can be paper, plaster, canvas, wood or basically anything that accepts the medium applied from the point of the stick. In painting, media refers to both the type of paint used and the base (or ground) to which it is applied. A paint's medium refers to what carries a paint's pigments (colours), and is also called a vehicle, base or binder. A painter can mix a medium with solvents, pigments, and other substances in order to make paint, and control consistency. |