Mediums of Art

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visual or space arts - those that occupy space.

Silverpoint

A silver pointed instrument is drawn over a sheet of paper prepared beforehand with zinc white resulting to a thin, grayish line that cannot be erased. Popular during Renaissance.

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Aquatint

Medium

Components & Quality Details

Medium

Components and Quality Details

Pastel and Chalk

Dry pigment held together with a gum binder and compressed into sticks. Usually for preliminary sketches.

Tempera

Earth or mineral pigments mixed into egg yolk and egg white Dries quickly and makes corrections difficult. Was used on vellum in producing books. Now, it is applied to wooden panels and surfaced with gesso.

Fresco

Earth pigments mixed with water on a plaster wall while plaster is damp. Color sinks into the surface and becomes part of the wall permanently. Michaelangelo's painting on the Sistine Chapel. Da Vinci's Last Supper. In Asia, fresco secco is used.

Encaustic

From hot beeswax, resin, ground pigment. After polishing, it gives off a soft luster that heightens its translucent quality. Egyptians, Greeks & Romans used this to paint portraits on coffins.

Ink

India (liquid ink), China (solid)

Charcoal

May be from burned twig /wood (before) and particles of carbon mixed with binder (now).

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Mezzotint

Bistre (gray brown ink from resinous wood) and Sepia (dark brown ink from ink sacs of cuttlefish or squid)

Oldest materials still in use, allows great variety of qualities depending on the tools and techniques and surfaces.

Crayons

Pigment bound by wax and compressed into sticks. Work well with paper

Oil

Pigment ground in linseed oil and applied to primed canvas. The translucent quality of oil allows one color painted underneath another to show through which makes an exciting mingling of tones and fine gradations of light and dark. Oil paints are slow to dry and the painting can be changed and worked over a long period of time. When oil dries, it forms a tough, glossy film on the surface. Very flexible medium. Can be used with a brush, air brush, palette knife, bare hands on transparent film or opaque surface. A three dimensional character is added to a painting by impasto (dabbing lumps of thick pain on the canvas with a knife).

Acrylic

Synthetic paints using acrylic polymer emulsions as binder (newest mediums). It combines the transparency and quick-drying characteristics of watercolor and the flexibility of oil. They are e completely insoluble when dry and they can be used on almost any surface.

Watercolor

Tempered paint made of pure ground pigment bound with gum arabic, applied on thin films which result to delicate luminous texture to the painting.

Pencil

The lead comes in differing hardness from soft and smudgy to very hard and needle-like Possible for a wide range of values.

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Three-dimensional arts (sculpture, architecture, landscaping, community planning, industrial design, and crafts like ceramics and furniture-making)

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Two-dimensional arts (painting, drawing, printmaking, photography)

Softest charcoal produces darkest, most velvety tones. Hardest are the lightest grayest ones

Very useful in representing broad masses of light and shadow.

Gouache is paint whose pigment has been mixed with a chalk-like material and makes the paint opaque.

Watercolor painting is spontaneous, it is done in one sitting and there can be very little or no corrections.

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auditory or time arts - those that can be heard and are expressed in time.

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combined arts - they can be seen and heard, and exist in space and time. (dance, drama, opera, music)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q2oqG6S4Mk&index=4&list=PLD1240D899F3875A4 (Pressure + Ink: Introduction to Intaglio by The Museum of Modern Art)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjymxow3TVQ (Pressure + Ink Relief: Process by The Museum of Modern Art)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-PFEbQ5UGc&list=PLD1240D899F3875A4&index=6 (Pressure + Ink: Introduction to Lithography by The Museum of Modern Art)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwWJyy24So&list=PLD1240D899F3875A4&index=5 (Pressure + Ink: Intaglio Process by The Museum of Modern Art)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8nzbHr3aIQ (A Look into the Art of Serigraphy)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR8yK_aKb2Q&list=PLD1240D899F3875A4 (Pressure + Ink: Introduction to Relief Printmaking by The Museum of Modern Art)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUXDltQfqSA&index=7&list=PLD1240D899F3875A4 ((Pressure + Ink: Intaglio Process by The Museum of Modern Art)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uF3PZ3KGQ (Ukiyo-e Woodblock Printmaking with Keizaburo Matsuzaki from Art Gallery of NSW)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogKeYH2wEE (Printmaking Process: Screen-printing)