Art App

• Medium


  The materials which are used by an artist to interpret his feelings or thoughts
• Technique


  The manner in which artist controls his medium to achieve the desired effect
• Artist and his medium


  • The matter of selecting the medium depends entirely on the artist himself
  • He normally selects the material that can be handled with ease, and best suit his plan
  • Artist loves and respect his medium
  • Medium has its own characteristic which determine the physical appearance of finished artwork
  • It has something to do with the way he manipulates his mediums to express his idea
• Artist and his technique

  • Technique differs in various arts
  • Artist technique in one medium will be quite different from another artist
  • Musician - to make sound the way he wants
  • Sculptor - way of handling chisel and hammer to produce the desired effect
  • Painter - have a fine technique in watercolor than using oil
• Visual arts


  Those mediums can be seen and which occupy space
• Mediums of visual arts

  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Printmaking
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
• Painting


  The art of creating meaningful effects on flat surface by the use of pigments
• Materials used in painting

  • Watercolor
  • Gouache
  • Fresco
  • Tempera
  • Pastel
  • Encaustic
  • Oil
  • Acrylic
  • Mosaic
  • Tapestry
• Watercolor


  It is difficult to handle because it is difficult to produce warm and rich tones but it invites brilliance and a variety hue
• Gouache


  An opaque watercolor painting the major effects of which are caused by the paper itself
• Fresco


  Painting on a moist plaster surface with colors ground in water or a limewater mixture
• Tempera


  Mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk or egg white and ore, usually done on a wooden panel with plaster called "gesso"
• Pastel


  A stick of dried paste made of pigment round with chalk and compounded with gum water, with luminous color and a very flexible medium
• Encaustic


  Used by Egyptians for painted portrait on mummy cases, done by painting with wax colors fixed with heat
• Oil painting


  Pigments mixed with linseed oil and applied to canvas, one of the most expensive art activities
• Acrylic


  Used popularly by contemporary painters because of transparency and quick-drying characteristics of watercolor and flexibility of oil
• Mosaic


  Made up of small pieces of colored stones or glass called "tesserae", glued on a surface with plaster
• Tapestry


  Fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce design
• Drawing


  Usually done by paper using pencil, pen and ink or charcoal, a very good training for artist because it makes one concentrate on the use of line
• Materials used in drawing

  • Pencil
  • Pen and Ink
  • Bistre
  • Crayons
  • Charcoal
• Pencil


  Most common medium in drawing, with leads graded in different degrees of hardness or softness for different effects
• Pen and Ink


  One of the oldest mediums still in use, offering great variety of qualities depending on the tools and techniques used
• India ink


  Comes in liquid form, favorite medium of comic strip illustrators and cartoonists
• China ink


  Comes in solid sticks that are dissolved in water before they are used
• Bistre


  Brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood
• Crayons


  Pigments bound by wax and compressed into painted sticks
• Charcoal


  Carbonaceous materials obtained by heating wood or organic substances in the absence of oxygen
• Printmaking


  Anything printed on the surface that is a direct result from duplicating process, with the painting or graphic image done in black ink on white paper becoming the artist's plate
• Five major types of print


  • Woodcut
  • Engraving
  • Relief
  • Intaglio
  • Stencil printing
• Woodcut


  Made from a piece of wood, with the design formed by cutting away the parts that are not to be printed
• Engraving


  The art of forming design by cutting or corrosion by acids
• Etching


  A development of engraving
• Relief


  Involves cutting away from a block of wood or linoleum the parts of the design that the artist wants to be seen, leaving the portion of the third dimension
• Intaglio


  A printing process in which the design or the text is engraved into the surface and the ink is transferred to paper from the groove
• Stencil printing


  Involves cutting of design on special paper, cardboard or metal sheet in such way that when the ink is rubbed over it, the design is reproduced on the surface
• Sculpture


  The art of making two or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster
• Materials used by Sculptors

  • Stone
  • Jade
  • Ivory
  • Metals (Bronze, Brass, Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead)
  • Plaster
  • Clay
  • Glass
  • Wood
  • Terra Cotta
• Stone


  Hard and brittle substance formed from mineral and earth material
• Jade


  A fine, colorful stone, usually green, used widely in ancient China
• Ivory


  Comes from the tusk of elephants, the hard white substance used to make carving and billiard balls