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Visual Arts: Mediums and Techniques

This document discusses various mediums and techniques used in visual arts. It describes different 2D and 3D mediums like watercolor, fresco, pastel, oil, tempera, acrylic, stained glass, tapestry, mosaic, crayons, charcoal, stone, granite, marble, jade, ivory, metal, bronze, copper, gold, lead, plaster, clay, glass, and wood. It also explains techniques like blowing, etching, printing, transfer design, tinkering, splattering, throwing, coloring, flowing, cutting, print, relief printing, intaglio printing, planagraphic process, stencil process, silkscreen, and photography.

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Visual Arts: Mediums and Techniques

This document discusses various mediums and techniques used in visual arts. It describes different 2D and 3D mediums like watercolor, fresco, pastel, oil, tempera, acrylic, stained glass, tapestry, mosaic, crayons, charcoal, stone, granite, marble, jade, ivory, metal, bronze, copper, gold, lead, plaster, clay, glass, and wood. It also explains techniques like blowing, etching, printing, transfer design, tinkering, splattering, throwing, coloring, flowing, cutting, print, relief printing, intaglio printing, planagraphic process, stencil process, silkscreen, and photography.

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MEDIUMS AND

TECHNIQUES OF
VISUAL ARTS
MEDIUMS OF
VISUAL ARTS
MEDIUM
•Denotes the means by which an artists
communicates his ideas
•Something that translates his feelings or
thoughts into a beautiful reality
The Mediums of Visual Art in
2-D
•Water Color •Acrylic
•Fresco •Stained glass
•Pastel and Chalk •Tapestry
•Oil •Mosaic
•Tempera •Crayons
•Encaustic •Charcoal
Watercolor
•A simple coloring
medium
• Has less luminous
effect when applied but
easy to use
Fresco

•A paint on a moist
plaster surface
applied with lime
water mixture
Pastel and Chalk

•Dry pigments held


together by a gum binder
and compressed into stick
Oil
• Ispigment mixed with linseed oil
and applied in canvass Expensive,
Flexible, Glossy, Dries slowly but
lasts long
Tempera

•A mineral pigment
mixed with egg yolk or
egg white and ore
Encaustic

•Used by Egyptian in the portrait of


face as in the case of community

•Done with wax colors by the use


of heat
Acrylic
•A medium most widely used by
the painters these days because
of the characteristics of
transparency and quick drying
Stained Glass
Is a combination of small
pieces of colored glass held
together by hands of lead
Tapestry
•A fabric consisting of warp
where colored threads are
woven to make designs
•Used in wall hangings or
furniture cover
Mosaic
•A picture decoration
which are cut small pieces
of colored stones or glass
and glued or pasted on a
surface with cement or
plaster
Crayons

•Are pigments bound by


wax and compressed into
painted sticks used by
students
Charcoal

•Made from
carbonized
materials from
heating wood
The Mediums of Visual Art in 3-D
• Stone • Gold
• Granite • Silver
• Marble
• Lead
• Jade
• Ivory • Plaster
• Metal • Clay
• Bronze brass • Glass
• Copper
• Wood
Stone Granite

Marble Jade
Ivory Metal

Bronze Copper
Gold Metal

Lead Plaster
Clay Glass

Wood Brass
TECHNIQUES OF
VISUAL ARTS
Technique

•Means, a process, or a method of using


the medium in a manner that he wishes
to finish an art work
Blowing Etching

Printing Transfer Design


Tinkering Splattering

Throwing Coloring
Flowing Cutting
Print
•A form of duplicating
•In the process of printmaking it involves the preparation of a
master image on a plate which may be made of metal, wood or
stone from which the impression is taken.
•Each print is considered an original work, not merely a
reproduction
Printing
•In art this means reproduction.
•A single design is made to be multiplied
•Nowadays printing is a popular as painting and
sculpture
4 Major Processes of Printmaking

•Stencil Process
•Planagraphic Process
•Intaglio Printing
•Relief Printing
Relief Printing

•Is a process of cutting away a portion


in a design which is not needed
Intaglio Printing

•The process in the preparation of the


impression is the opposite of those of relief
printing
Intaglio Printing
•Scratched
•Etched
•Engraved
•Burin - The most widely used with the use of
cutting tool
Planagraphic Process
•A surface painting treated first chemically or
mechanically so some areas have printing while
others have none
•The process is drawing the design with a greasy
crayon and fixed with an acid solution
Stencil Process

•Done by cutting out a paper, cardboard or


metal sheet so when ink is rubbed over it
Silkscreen
•Fundamentally multi-color process
Photography
•An actual likeness of the
design
•It is the use of camera to
produced the desired copy
•Literally drawing or writing
with light

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