Sandpainting is a form of two-dimensional art created in many traditional societies. It's interesting because of its comparative impermanence. However, it can be fixed into place:
Another cool nontraditional surface for painting is glass:
This last one is a Chinese reverse glass painting from the 1700's (really!)
It's called a reverse glass painting because it's made by painting on glass then flipping it around.
Reverse glass painting is one of the coolest things I've seen. It looks so much like regular painting, but the thought that it's on glass instead of canvas is shocking.
It's a really hard art form because there's no room for mistakes: everything you paint will show up, because everything is being done backwards. You start by painting the foreground and then you paint the background.
Hey, this is pretty neat-o. I like how you talked about multiple art forms that are off the canvas rather than just a singular artmin. 1/1
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