ART 002

• Use of various media


  Allows for more artistic expression because it adds another channel of expression to the artists
• Common mediums

  • Oil, watercolor, acrylic paint, clay for sculpture, paper for collage
• Acrylic paint


  1. Can be applied in many different ways

  2. Offers versatility to experiment with many styles, techniques, and types of paint

  3. Ideal painting medium for beginners

  4. Water-based, dries quickly, saves time, can be used in wet style techniques

  5. Can be thinned with water up to a point

  6. Requires fewer brushes than oil painting and has a huge range of colors

  7. Can easily mimic watercolor and oil paints simply by adding more or less water
• Chalk


  1. Composed of compressed mineral pigment and clay

  2. Used in drawings and paintings for centuries

  3. Has evolved into a number of different varieties that present unique textures and colors
• Oil paint

  1. Made from a base of drying oil

  2. Ground linseed, poppy seed, and walnut being the most common form of pigment

  3. Physical characteristics give an amazing range of how it can be used

  4. Best medium for creating works of art

  5. Acrylics dry quickly than would but don't offer much flexibility in working methods
• Colored pencils


  1. Artists create realistic or abstract images that combine color with the properties of graphite

  2. Used when creating fine art pieces
• Different materials

  • Have different properties, reflect light differently, and move differently
• Acrylic paint


  Paints made from the synthetic resin and have low odor
• Different types of art mediums

  • Acrylic
  • Chalk
  • Charcoal
  • Colored pencils
  • Graphite pencils
  • Oil paint
  • Oil pastels
• Medium


  • Any raw material or mode of expression
  • The means the artist employs
  • Material that is used to create the actual work of art
• Charcoal


  1. A soft, black, brittle stick made of burnt wood

  2. Makes marks on paper or canvas similar to graphite but has a warmer appearance

  3. One of the most commonly used drawing mediums

  4. Used since ancient times for drawing and sketching due to its softness, blackness, and ability to make lines using varying degrees of thickness
• Graphite pencils

  1. Can be used in a variety of ways

  2. Can create thin and thick lines depending on the amount of pressure you apply

  3. Used to create a wide range of media

  4. Shading capabilities are enormous

  5. Fine texture and soft nature allow artists to transform the medium into an array of natural colors, soaked upon, and blended with layered strokes
• Oil pastels

  1. Great for sketching, drawing, and painting

  2. Often used on their own or mixed with watercolors, gouache, acrylics

  3. Have a combination of properties, making them very versatile
• Pen and Ink


  • Artwork is created using a pen and ink
  • Most traditional mediums: dip pen and calligraphy pen
  • Professional grade drawing tools
  • Normally used for line work and tonal drawings
  • Used extensively by architectural firms for making mock-up drawings
• Acrylics


  • Dry quickly but don't offer much flexibility in working methods
• Techniques of Visual Art

  • Blowing Techniques
  • Transfer Design
  • Tinkering
  • Splattering
  • Throwing
• Tempera

  • Made by mixing dry pigments with an egg-based binder
  • Used for the vast majority of paintings before the 16th century
  • Heyday was the Renaissance when developed as an oil alternative
  • One of the oldest mediums in the history of painting, dates back to ancient Greeks
  • Made from mixing water, pigments, and ground chalk
• Splattering

  1. Techniques for flicking, throwing, or dripping paint onto a painting surface

  2. Celebrates spontaneity and improvisation
• Transfer Design

  Requires a design in another medium and transferring it to another medium using acetone and pressure
• Oil Pastels


  • Great for sketching, drawing, and painting
  • Often used on their own, or mixed with watercolors, gouache, acrylics
  • Versatile with a combination of properties
  • Made of pigments suspended in oil and wax
  • Can blend colors together like watercolor paints
  • Good for building up layers like watercolor paints
• Soft Pastels

  • Composed of tiny pigment and binder in a stick
  • Combined with water-soluble gum arabic to adhere to paper
  • Provide a rich velvety matte surface
  • Capable of great subtlety
  • Blend well and are harder than most pencils
  • Good substitute for watercolors for some applications
• Mediums for creating works of art

  • Acrylics
  • Oil Pastels
  • Pen and Ink
  • Soft Pastels
  • Tempera
  • Watercolors
• Watercolors


  • Wet painting technique
  • Artists use water to dissolve and disperse pigment
  • Colors change as they dry, producing luminosity
  • Richly expressive and sensitive medium
• Throwing

  1. Making a pot from a piece of clay on a potter's wheel

  2. Involves shaping the clay from preparation to final touches
• Tinkering


  1. Act of repair or invention

  2. Expresses creation and understanding of concepts while physically engaging with things
• Blowing Techniques

  1. Pushing in air to spread

  2. Spread molten glass using an electric hair blower
• Scratching (scratch art)


  Graphic technique used to create value drawings, often in black-and-white with popular metallic backgrounds
• Throwing


  Making a pot from a piece of clay on a potter's wheel, including preparation, wedging, centering, opening, making desired object, and giving final touches
• Flowing

  Mixing paints in a cup, flipping it on canvas, and letting the paint flow all over the canvas, resulting in varied colors
• Photography


  Creating an actual likeness of a design using a camera, essentially drawing or writing with light
• Printing

  Reproduction of a single design to be multiplied, commonly used in painting and sculpture
• Fields covered by the Order of National Artists

  • Music, dance, theater, visual arts, literature, film, broadcast arts, architecture, and allied arts
• Coloring


  Applying colors to drawings or starting with colors right away
• Cutting


  Art of paper designs, traditionally cutting designs from a single sheet of paper
• Engraving


  Printmaking technique involving making incisions into a metal plate to form a printed image
• Etching Techniques


  Making prints from a metal plate, usually copper, by incising the design with acid
• The Order of National Artists is the highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts in various fields
• The Order of National Artists is jointly administered by the National Commission of Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and
• The National Artist title is conferred by the President of the Philippines upon recommendation by

  NCCA and CCP
• Artist


  A person who performs any of the creative arts, all forms, skilled in a particular activity such as drawing, designing, composing, etc.