Editing Recreation (section)

===Visual arts===
{{Main|Visual arts}}
Woodworking, photography, [[moviemaking]], [[jewellery making|jewelry making]], software projects such as [[Photoshopping]] and home music or [[video production]], making [[friendship bracelets|bracelets]], [[art|artistic projects]] such as drawing, painting, Cosplay (design, creation, and wearing of a costume based on an already existing creative property), creating models out of card stock or paper (called [[papercraft]]) fall under the category [[visual arts]]. Many of these are practised for recreation.

====Drawing====
{{Main|Drawing}}
Drawing goes back at least 16,000 years to [[Paleolithic]] [[Cave painting|cave representations]] of animals such as those at [[Lascaux]] in France and [[Cave of Altamira|Altamira]] in Spain. In [[Art of ancient Egypt|ancient Egypt]], ink drawings on [[papyrus]], often depicting people, were used as models for painting or sculpture. Drawings on [[pottery of ancient Greece|Greek vases]], initially geometric, later developed to the human form with [[black-figure pottery]] during the 7th century BC.<ref>[http://www.dibujosparapintar.com/english_activities/drawing_course_history.html History of Drawing. From Dibujos para Pintar.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120141213/http://dibujosparapintar.com/english_activities/drawing_course_history.html |date=2010-11-20 }} Retrieved 23 October 2009.</ref>

With [[history of paper|paper]] becoming common in Europe by the 15th century, drawing was adopted by masters such as [[Sandro Botticelli]], [[Raphael]], [[Michelangelo]], and [[Leonardo da Vinci]] who sometimes treated drawing as an art in its own right rather than a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..dr085000.a |title=Drawing |date=2006 |website=[[History (U.S. TV channel)|History.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314224108/http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..dr085000.a |archive-date=14 March 2009 |url-status=dead |access-date=23 October 2009 }}</ref>

====Literature====
Writing may involve letters, journals and web blogs.
In the US, about half of all adults read one or more books for pleasure each year.<ref name=":0" />  About 5% read more than 50 books per year.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/love-reading-books-leisure-pleasure/598315/|title=Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers|last=Pinsker|first=Joe|date=2019-09-19|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-02}}</ref>

====Painting====
{{Main|Painting}}
[[File:Lascaux painting.jpg|thumb|Depiction of aurochs, horses and deer in Lascaux]]
Like drawing, painting has its documented origins in caves and on rock faces. The finest examples, believed by some to be 32,000 years old, are in the [[Chauvet Cave|Chauvet]] and [[Lascaux]] caves in southern France. In shades of red, brown, yellow and black, the paintings on the walls and ceilings are of bison, cattle, horses and deer. Paintings of human figures can be found in the tombs of ancient Egypt. In the great temple of [[Ramses II]], [[Nefertari]], his queen, is depicted being led by [[Isis]].<ref>[http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=1320&HistoryID=ab20&gtrack=pthc History of Painting. From History World]. Retrieved 23 October 2009.</ref> Greek and Roman art like the Hellenistic [[Fayum mummy portraits]] and [[Battle of Issus]] at [[Pompeii]] contributed to [[Byzantine art]] in the 4th century BC, which initiated a tradition in icon painting. Models of aeroplanes, boats, cars, tanks, artillery, and even figures of soldiers and superheroes are popular subjects to build, paint and display.

====Photography====
{{Main|Photography}}
An amateur photographer practices photography as a [[hobby]]/[[Passion (emotion)|passion]] and not for monetary profit. The quality of some amateur work may be highly specialized or [[Eclecticism in art|eclectic]] in choice of subjects. Amateur photography is often pre-eminent in photographic subjects which have little prospect of commercial use or reward. Amateur photography grew during the late 19th century due to the popularization of the [[Hand-held camera]].<ref>{{Cite journal
| doi     = 10.1080/03087298.2011.606727
| title   = Home Portraiture
| journal = History of Photography
| volume  = 35
| issue   = 4
| pages   = 374–387
| year    = 2011
| last1   = Peterson
| first1  = C.A.
| s2cid = 216590139
}}</ref> Nowadays it has spread widely through social media and is carried out throughout different platforms and equipment, including the use of cell phone. Clear pictures can now be taken with a cell phone which is a key tool for making photography more accessible to everyone.