Painting as an artistic method is declared dead at regular intervals. But painting stubbornly remains on the Parnassus. During a radical period not so long ago, brushes, palettes and easels were even removed from art school studios so that no one would be tempted to start painting. But the desire to paint remained and today one cannot complain about the availability of painters. The most common technique is acrylic, a modern technique that began to be used by American artists in the late forties and came to Europe in the sixties. Oil paint is much older, but still not older than the fifteenth century. Before that, tempera was the common technique in Europe. Today, all the techniques are used in parallel and sometimes together in so-called mixed media, even though the techniques in their pure form are very different from each other. In mixed media, you can also use different types of chalk and drawing and even graphics at the bottom. Watercolor was once considered an incomplete technique, but mostly a technique for sketches. Today, watercolor is on a par with oil, acrylic, and tempera. Then there are pastels, oil pastels, chalk, ink, collage, and many other techniques where, for example, granules, sand, plaster, or other materials are mixed into the pigment and binder. The inventiveness is great.