Unit 3 Flashcards
Process of Art Production
Medium
Technique
Curation
where the artist express themselves
Medium
shows the level of familiarity with the medium being manipulated.
Technique
It is a process that involves managing, overseeing and assembling or putting together a presentation or exhibit for some type of artistic collection.
Curation
Different Media for Drawing
Pencil
Ink
Pastel
Charcoal
Paper
Made of graphite which comes in different hardness from soft to hard or thickness from thick to needle-like.
Pencil
Shading Techniques
Hatching
Cross-hatching
Stippling
Blending
It is one of the oldest material for drawing that is still in use. It allows for a great variety of qualities, depending on the tools and technique used in the application.
Ink
This is composed of dry pigment held together by a gum binder and compressed into sticks.
Pastel
Kinds of Pastel
Soft Pastel
Hard Pastel
Oil Pastel
Pastel Techniques
Stippling
Feathering
Scumbling
Impasto
Sgrafitto
An organic medium that comes from burnt wood.
Charcoal
Kinds of charcoal
Compressed
Manufactured
The most common surface used in two-dimensional art.
Paper
The most common surface used in two-dimensional art.
Paper
Types of Paper
Hot-pressed – smooth
Cold-pressed – has moderate texture
Rough paper – has the most texture (tooth)
process of applying paint
Painting
Different Media for Painting
Watercolor
Gouache
Oil Paints
Tempera
Fresco
Acrylic
painting method in which the paints are made
of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
Watercolor
The pigment has been mixed with water and added with a chalk-like material to give it an opaque effect.
Gouache
Pigments are mixed with oil as its binder. It is a dense painting medium and gives rich, beautiful colors. Discovered by a Flemish painter, Jan Van Eyck in the 15th century.
Oil Paints
Pigment is mixed with egg yolk (sometimes with the white) as binder.
Tempera
Pigment is mixed with water and applied on a portion of the wall with wet plaster. It is used for mural paintings.
Fresco
Modern medium with synthetic paint using acrylic emulsion as binder.
Acrylic
Wall or floor decorations made of small tiles or irregularly cut pieces of colored stones or glass called tesserae.
Mosaic
Derived from a French word “coller” which means to stick. This is a technique of making art by gluing or pasting on a firm support materials or found objects.
Collage
Process used for making reproductions of graphic works. Allows for the repeated
transfer of a master image from a printing plate (matrix) onto a surface.
Printmaking
Printmaking Techniques
Relief Printing (Raised)
Intaglio Printing (Depressed)
Surface Printing (Flat)
The oldest method of printmaking. The techniques involves cutting away certain parts of the surface and leaving the ‘raised’ part to produce the image.
Relief Printing
Instead of the surface of the plate for the image, the lines of the image are cut or incised to a metal plate.
Intaglio Printing