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DIY Art Techniques Booklet

I chose art in form 4 and 5 for several reasons: to learn techniques beyond the basics, to experience new things and experiment, and to relax. While drawing can seem simple, understanding details like color, perspective, and hidden meanings takes effort. The document then provides glossaries of terms for drawing and painting techniques. It shows examples of the student's completed drawings and paintings using different media like dry and wet, as well as realistic and expressive styles. The student reflects on developing their art skills in various forms.

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DIY Art Techniques Booklet

I chose art in form 4 and 5 for several reasons: to learn techniques beyond the basics, to experience new things and experiment, and to relax. While drawing can seem simple, understanding details like color, perspective, and hidden meanings takes effort. The document then provides glossaries of terms for drawing and painting techniques. It shows examples of the student's completed drawings and paintings using different media like dry and wet, as well as realistic and expressive styles. The student reflects on developing their art skills in various forms.

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Why I chose art in form 4&5


I chose art because I wanted to learn more than just the basics that were taught in
the lower forms and to experience all that there was to offer also to try new things
and experiment with them, not only for these but also as a way to relax, even
though it's not as simple as just sketching something and claiming that is all there
is to that piece but also to understand the detailed parts, even the colors,
perspective and also if there is a story or message behind the work 
Expressive Form One: Drawing

History of Drawing
Glossary
Drawing terms
Background: the part of a picture that appears to be farthest away from the viewer.
Cast Shadow: a shadow that is cast by an object onto an adjacent or nearby plane.
Composition: the placement of forms, shapes, colors, and light and dark areas in a
work of art. Artists use composition to direct the viewer’s eye to the most
important elements of a work of art.
Contour line: line that defines the edges of forms, separating each area from
neighboring ones.
Foreground: in a scene or art work, the part that seems closest to the viewer.
Foreshortening: perspective on the human body. The study of how proportions
change as the body moves from a standing position.
Hatching: achieved by applying one-direction lines to create value; the more the
lines, the darker the value. Contoured lives are used with round objects.
Highlight: where the light hits the object portrayed.

Value scale in dry media


(shading, hatching,
scumbling)Missing 1
Still life—Books, cup and
Spoon
completed
Value scale in wet media (cross
hatching, stippling scribbling)
completed

Drawing in wet media (free


form stippling)
completed

Still life (Jug with three wooden


spoons)
Drawing in the Caribbean

This piece is a realistic


Statement of reflection
Expressive Form Two: Painting
and Mixed Media

Glossary
Painting terms
Primary Colours: colours that occur naturally and cannot be made. They are the
building blocks of ALL other colours. They are RED, YELLOW and BLUE.
Secondary Colours: colours that are made by mixing EQUAL parts of primary
colours. They are GREEN, VIOLET and ORANGE.
Tertiary Colours: colours that are made by mixing a primary and secondary
colours. The name ALWAYS starts with the PRIMARY colour e.g. BLUE-green
and must have MORE of the primary colour when mixing.
Complementary Colours: colours that are opposite on the colour wheel.
Tetradic/ Rectangular Colours: two pairs of complementary colours that form a
rectangle. Each SHORT side must only have ONE colour in between. Each LONG
side must have THREE colours in between.
Analogous Colours: colours that are closest to each other on the colour wheel.
Triadic Colours: colours that form a TRIANGLE with three EQUAL sides. There
must be THREE colours in between each colour in the triad.
Square Colours: colours that form a perfect SQUARE. Each side of the square
MUST have two colours in between.
Split Complementary: colours that add the TWO analogous colours NEXT to a
complementary colour. The artist now has three colours to work with.
Dry Brush: a painting technique that does not use water to help apply paint.
Sgraffito: a painting technique where paint is applied and then scraped off using a
dull tool.
Wet on Wet: a painting technique where paint is applied using generous amounts
of water so that the pigments flow into each other.

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