Painting, taken literally, is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier (or medium) and binder (adhesive) to a surface (substrate) such as paper, canvas, or wall. When used in an artistic sense, however, it means using this activity in conjunction with drawing, composition, or other aesthetic considerations to manifest the practitioner’s expressive and conceptual intent. Painting is also used to express spiritual motifs and ideas; sites of this kind of painting range from works of art depicting mythological figures on ceramics to the Sistine Chapel to the human body itself.