II.

THE ARTS
2. The Artist and His Medium
3. The Artist and His Techniques

Regine C. Camat
Reporter
 What is Medium?
• refers to the materials that are used to
create a work of art
• The plural of medium is media
• Some of the most common media are
oil paints (paints that use oil to hold
pigments together), tempera (pigments
held together with egg yolk), marble
(soft, white stone), and bronze (a metal
used to cast sculptures).
 LIST OF ART MEDIA
Architecture
In the art and science of architecture,
the design and construction of buildings
and interiors, infrastructure and other physical
structures are created. It can involve multiple
disciplines
of brickwork, carpentry, engineering, stonemasonr
y and many other skills.
• Cement, concrete and mortar
• Cob
• Glass
• Metal
• Stone , brick
• Wood
 LIST OF ART MEDIA
Ceramics
A ceramic material is worked by hand and with tools
that might be coloured or glazed, then fired in
a kiln and hardened by heat, to
make earthenware, stoneware, sculpture and mosaic
art.
• Bone china
• Clay
• Glaze
• Porcelain
• Pottery
• Terracotta
 LIST OF ART MEDIA
Drawing
• Traditional drawing media
• Airbrush
• Acrylic paint
• Chalk
• Charcoal (soft or hard)
• Coloured pencil
• Crayon
• Gouache
• Graphite (can be pencils which are small or large sticks similar to charcoal)
• Marker
• Oil paint
• Pastel
• Pen and ink
• Pencil
• Sand
• Tempera
• Watercolor
 LIST OF ART MEDIA
Film
In cinematography and film, a sequence of still images is captured with
a video camera. A series of individual images are called frames. When
these images are shown in rapid succession, a viewer gains the displayed
illusion that motion is occurring.

• Animation
• Computer animation and computer-generated imagery
• Live action
• Live action and animation
• Stop motion
• Video art
 Famous Artist
Andy Warhol

• was the most successful and highly paid

commercial illustrator in New York even
before he began to make art destined for
galleries
• famous for exploring popular culture in
his work
• liked to use bright colours and silk
screening techniques to mass-produce
artworks based on photographs of
celebrities, like this famous image of
Marilyn Monroe.
 Medium/Media Used:
Printmaking Canvas Films

Screen prints

Sculpture
Art Works
#10 BANANA

#9 MICKEY MOUSE

#8 BIG ELECTRIC CHAIR

#7 FLOWERS SERIES

#6 COCA COLA (3)

#5 MAO

#4 SELF-PORTRAIT

#3 EIGHT ELVISES

#2 CAMPBELL’S SOUP CANS

#1 MARILYN DIPTYCH
 Famous Artist
Pablo Piccaso
• painter, sculptor, printmaker,
ceramicist, stage designer, poet and
playwright who spent most of his
adult life in France
• created more than 20,000
paintings, drawings, sculptures,
ceramics and other items such as
costumes and theater sets
• become one of the most famous and
successful artist throughout history
• No one has achieved the same
degree of widespread fame or
displayed such incredible versatility
as Pablo Picasso has in the art
history
 Medium/Media Used:
Oil paint Print making

Linocut
Art Works

Guernica

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

The Old Guitarist

The Weeping Woman

 Famous Artist
Vincent Van Gogh
• his work sold for record-breaking
sums at auctions around the world
and was featured in blockbuster
touring exhibitions
• known for being psychologically
unstable, but his arts are among the
most famous and popular of all time
• generally considered one of the
greatest Dutch painters of all time
 Medium/Media Used:
Oil paint turpentine

tubed synthetic paints

Art Works

The Starry Night

The Old Tower in the Fields

Self-Portrait with Pipe

Sun Flower
 Famous Artist
Leonardo da Vinci

• The original Renaissance Man

• true genius who graced this world
with his presence from April 15,
1452 to May 2, 1519
• lived in a golden age of creativity
among such contemporaries as
Raphael and Michaelangelo, and
contributed his unique genius to
virtually everything he touched.
• “Painting is poetry that is seen
rather than felt, and poetry is
painting that is felt rather than
seen.”
 Medium/Media Used:
oil-based paint plaster
Art Works

Mona Lisa

Last Supper

Vitruvian Man

Self Portrait
What is Techniques?

• the manner and ability with which an ar

tist, writer, dancer, athlete, or the like e
mploys the technical skills of
a particular art or field of endeavor.
• a way of doing
an activity that needs skill
 01. Underpainting
• an underpainting is a first layer of paint applied
to a canvas or board and it functions as a base
for other layers of paint
• It acts as a foundation for your painting and is
a great way to start your painting off with some
built in contrast and tonal values.
 02. Blocking in
• brushes come in a number of shapes and with
different fibre types, all of which give very
different results
• the key is to try all of them as you paint
• most versatile are a synthetic/sable mix – these
brushes can be used with most of the different
paint types
 03. Building up texture
• Have a dry, flat brush that you can use to blend your
paint and create smooth transitions
• One tip is to use an old toothbrush to spatter your
image with paint. This can be remarkably effective at
suggesting noise and grain.
 04. Dry brushing
• a method of applying colour that only partially
covers a previously dried layer of paint
• this method tends to work best when applying light
paint over dark areas/dried paint and is useful for
depicting rock and grass textures.
 05. Sgraffito
• Removing paint can be as important as applying it
• is the term used when you scratch away paint while
it's wet to expose the underpainting
• It's especially useful when depicting scratches, hair,
grasses and the like.
• You can use almost any pointed object for this – try
rubber shaping tools or the end of a brush.
 06. Glazing

• Glazing is the process of laying a coat of

transparent paint over a dry part of the painting,
and it's used for intensifying shadows and
modulating colour. A light transparent blue over
dry yellow will, of course, create green.
07. Painting with mediums
• Mediums are fluids that can be added to paint to
modulate its consistency, drying time and texture. In
the case of acrylics, you get different mediums that
make the paint matte or gloss. However, I tend to
use the matte medium mainly to seal my paper or
board, so paint doesn't soak into it.
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