THE ARTIST’S MEDIA

• Medium - These are the materials which are used by an artist to interpret his feelings or thoughts.
• arts are primarily classified as visual and auditory
• Visual arts - are those whose mediums can be seen and which occupy space.
• Dimensional or two - arts which include painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography
• three-dimensional arts - which include sculpture, architecture, landscape, community planning, industrial designs, and crafts like ceramics and furniture.
• Auditory arts - are those whose mediums can be heard and which are expressed in time. These are music and literature.
• Combined arts - are those whose mediums can be both seen and heard, and these exist in both space and time
• Technique - is the manner in which the artist controls his medium to achieve the desired effect.
• Painting - is the art of creating meaningful effects on a flat surface by the use of pigments.
• Watercolor - as a medium is difficult to handle because it is difficult to produce warm and rich tones but it invites brilliance and a variety of hues.
• Fresco - This is painting on a moist plaster surface with colors ground in water or a lime water mixture. The dry into plaster, and the picture becomes apart of the wall.
• fresco painting is Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” in the Sistine Chapel ceiling
• Tempera - paints are mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk or egg white and ore.
• Pastel - This is a stick of dried paste made of pigment round with chalk and compounded with gum water. Its colors are luminous, and it is a very flexible medium.
• Pastel - it has never won a prize, because it is difficult to preserve the finished product in its original freshness.
• Encaustic - This is one of the early mediums used by the Egyptians for the painted portrait on mummy cases.
• Oil - painting is one of the most expensive art activities today because of the prohibitive cost of materials.
• Acrylic - This medium is used popularly by contemporary painters because of the transparency and quick-drying characteristic of water color and the flexibility of oil combined.
• Mosaic - art is a picture or decoration made of small pieces of inlaid colored stones or glass called “tesserae”,
• Stained glass - as an artwork is common in Gothic cathedrals and churches. This is made by combining many small pieces of colored glass
• Tapestry - This is a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand.