Do you know all the different types of Visual Art? When you're looking at enriching your child's education with art, here are some ideas that fall under the Visual Arts category that you might like to explore.
Visual Art is any type of art that creates works that are primarily visual in nature, and the main focus of visual arts is the creative expression through visual means. For children, visual art is so important as it allows them to enter into imaginative worlds and to be creative in their own way. It also enables people to play with different materials and express themselves in a way that is unique to them.
But what are the different types of Visual Art?
When you take a look at all the art classes on Outschool, you begin to realise just how varied this category is, with so many teachers each teaching through their own passions for creative expression.
Here are 22 different types of visual art that we have found to inspire and spark your child's imagination!
(To find a class in that visual art type on Outschool, just click on the blue heading!)
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Painting is the expression of ideas and emotions on a two-dimensional space, involving shapes, colours, lines, tones and textures in unique ways to convey movement, volume, space and light, and is normally performed on a flat surface. This covers many different media such as watercolour painting, oil painting, resistance painting, acryllic painting, graffiti, pastels and more, and there's also a wide variety of styles and subjects to paint too! |
| 2. Drawing |
Drawing covers a wide range of approaches to art, and normally involves either the artist using an instrument like a pen, pencil, brushes, paints, crayons, chalk, pastels, etc to mark paper or other 2D surface. In more recent times, digital drawing on tablets has also emerged. |
| 3. Illustration | Illustration is a form of art which explains, expresses, clarifies, illuminates or visually represents or decorates ideas, words or concepts. It is often commercially produced, and is more about the originality of the artist. Cartooning is a form of illustration. |
| 4. Sketching | Sketching is a looser, less formal and refined approach to drawing. |
| 5. Sculpture | Sculpture is where hard or plastic materials are taken and worked into 3D objects which are either freestanding, as part of surfaces or included in environments such as carvings in tree trunks. |
| 6. Pottery & Ceramics | Pottery and ceramics will normally consist of creating objects out of clay which is then hardened with heat, although there are occasionally air-dry alternatives. Polymer clay sculpting is a popular activity on Outschool. |
| 7. Photography | Photography is the taking of photographs with the vision of the photographer as the artist who will use different visual elements and techniques to create an outcome that meets their intentions and is aesthetically pleasing. |
| 8. Fashion design | Fashion design is the art dedicated to creating clothing and other lifestyle accessories. |
| 9. Interior design | Interior design brings a room, a home, an indoor space's character and personality to life. Using colours, patterns, textures and textiles, bringing in the work of other artists and combining elements to create a mood and atmosphere in that space. |
| 10. Jewellery design | Creating pieces of jewellery is one of the oldest forms of visual art and involves using different media such as metal, textiles, wood, stones and clay to create items to be worn on the body. |
| 11. Make-up | With the face and body as a canvas, makeup artists learn to either create every day or special occasion looks using makeup. This can also include face painting and stage makeup. |
| 12. Calligraphy | Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing where beautiful letters and symbols are created by hand using pens, ink brushes or other writing instruments. |
| 13. Digital Art | Digital art is a much more recent approach to creating art, and is created using digital tools and technology like Photoshop, Procreate, etc. This might be to create 2D or 3D images, and also includes image manipulation. |
| 14. Graphic design | Graphic design is the process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas, often to convey a message on behalf of a client to their audience. |
| 15. Filmmaking & video | Filmmaking, aka cinematography, is the way by which motion pictures are created by capturing a story visually. Creating other types of video, on YouTube for example, can also come under this category. |
| 16. Architecture | Architecture involves the art and method of building and designing structures with an artistic element, such as designing a house or other building, that is both functional and creative. |
| 17. Topography & maps | Topography and map making can be a form of art in themselves. Creating all different types of map with illustrations on them to convey meaning of the area is considered by some as a visual art. |
| 18. Video Game design | Game art design is the process of creating the visuals for video games and starts in the pre-production phase of designing a new game. |
| 19. Coding & art | Creative coding uses software, code and computational processes to be expressive or to create art forms. |
| 20. Animation | Animation is the art of making a motion picture from still life drawings or using stop motion techniques with objects, clay and more. |
| 21. Paper crafts | Paper crafts as a visual art include types such as origami, papier mache, scrapbooking, card making, decoupage, origata (creative gift wrapping) and quilling. |
| 22. Textiles, sewing, needlecrafts | Knitting, sewing, crocheting, embroidery, dressmaking are all visual art techniques involving materials and fibres to create artwork. Needle felting is also part of this. |
Are there any on the list that you hadn't heard of or considered as a visual art before? Which ones do you think your child would love to explore over the coming months? We'd love to hear your choices over in our UK Outschool Families community on Facebook. Come and join us there.
