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ARTISTS
AND
ARTISANS
WHAT MAKES AN ARTIST
DIFFERENT FROM AN
ARTISAN?
Artist is an art practitioner
such as painter, sculptor,
choreographer, dancer,
musician, etc. who produces
or creates indirectly
functional arts with aesthetic
value using imagination.
Artisan is a craftsman, such
as carpenter, carver,
plumber, blacksmith,
weaver, embroider, etc. who
produces directly functional
and/or decorative arts.
MEDIA and
TECHNIQUES
 Medium is the mode of
expression in which the concept,
idea or message is conveyed.
 These are the materials which are

used by an artist to interpret his
feelings or thoughts.
 Many meda are used in creating

different works of art.
TECHNIQUE
(artist)
 Is the manner in which artist
controls his meda to achieve
the desired effect.
 It has something to do with
the way he manipulates his
media to express his idea.
VISUAL ARTS
 are media that can be seen
and which occupy space.
PAINTING. The art of creating
meaningful effects on flat
surface by the use of pigments
on wood, canvas, etc.
MATERIALS USED
IN
PAINTING
WATERCOLOR
 is a material that is difficult to
handle because of difficulty in
producing warm and rich tones, but it
invites brilliance and a variety of
hues.
GOUACHE
 An opaque watercolor painting
the major effects of which are
caused by the paper itself.
FRESCO
 pigments are mixed with water
and applied on a wet plaster.
TEMPERA
 pigments mixed with egg yolk or
egg white.
PASTEL
 a stick of dried paste made of
pigment round with chalk and
compounded with gum water.
ENCAUSTIC
 used by Egyptians for painted
portrait on mummy cases. It is
done by painting with wax colors
fixed with heat.
OIL
 oil painting is the one of the most
expensive art activities of today
because of the materials.
 pigments are mixed with linseed
oil and applied to canvas.
ACRYLIC
 the medium used today by the
modern painters and the only
thinner used is water.
MATERIALS USED
IN
DRAWING
PENCIL
 Most common medium in
drawing.
 Pencil leads are graded in
different degrees of hardness or
softness.
PEN AND INK
 one of the oldest media still in
use.
 offers great variety of qualities,
depending on the tools and
techniques used in application.
 India ink – comes
in liquid form;
favorite medium of
comic strip
illustrators and
cartoonists.
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.
SILVERPOINT
 silver stylus that produce a thin
grayish line.
SCULPTURE
SCULPTURE. Is the art of making
two or three dimensional
representation by means of
carving, casting, modeling and
fabrication.
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PLASTIC
STONE
 hard and brittle substance
formed from mineral and earth
material.
IVORY
 comes from the tusk of elephants,
the hard white substance used to
make carving and billiard balls.
METAL
 can be cast, cut, drilled, filled,
bent, forged and stamped.
PLASTER
 compose of lime, sand, and
water.
 used extensively in making
mannequins, models, molds,
architectural decoration and
other indoor sculptures.
CLAY
 possesses
little strength
intention or
compression
and requires
an armature
for support.
GLASS
 medium that is hard, brittle, more
or less transparent substances
produced by fusion.
WOOD
 easier to carve than any
mediums available. They are
lighter and softer to carve despite
of having greater tensile strength.
TERRA COTTA
 a brownish red
clay that has
been baked and
used for making
pots and small
statues.
BASIC SCULPTURE
TECHNIQUES
1. CARVING – involves cutting or
chipping away a shape from a mass of
stone, wood or other hard materials.
2. MODELING – built using an armature
and then shaped to create a form.
3. CASTING – reproducing the form
from an original clay or wax model.
Bronze
4. ASSEMBLING / FABRICATION –
putting together of different materials to
create an assembled sculpture.
Example:
GENERAL MARIANA
by Josephine Turalba
(NCR)
(plastic, brass,
copper, steel, gold)
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE is the art of
designing a building and supervising its
construction.
 a shelter to serve as protection of all
activities of men.
MATERIALS USED IN
ARCHITECTURE
 Rock materials
 Metal materials
 Organic materials
 Hybrid Materials
 Synthetic materials

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