CPAR ARTISTIC SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES

With the broadening of the art world, many people are getting confused about what
qualifies as an artistic skill. Artistic skills are abilities that are possessed by artists
who operate within a fine art capacity.
Each artist uses different mediums to develop their artistic skills. A medium is
defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made. Through
these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas.
The medium also defines the nature of the art form as follows:
1. The sculptor uses metal, wood, stone, clay, and glass. Sculptures fall within the
category of
“three-dimensional” arts because they occupy space and have volume.
Pottery is a form of sculpture. Other examples are nudes or figures such as
Guillermo
Tolentino’s Oblation, ritual objects such as bulul wood carvings in the cordillera, or
the santos or carvings of saints in Christian churches

2. The architect uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete and various building
materials.
Buildings are also called “three-dimensional”. However, architecture has the added
element of
time since we move into structures.

3. The painter uses pigments (e. g. watercolor, oil, tempera, textile paint, acrylic,
ink, etc.) on a usually flat ground (wood, canvas, paper, stone wall such as cave
paintings.)

4. The printmaker uses ink printed or transferred on a surface (wood, metal plates,
or silk screen) that is keeping with a duplicating or reproducing process. Prints and
paintings are further
classified as “two-dimensional” arts, because they include the surface or ground on
which
coloring substances are applied. However, while paintings are unique and one-of-a
kind, printscan be reproduced in several pre-determined editions.

5. The musician uses sound and instruments (including human voice), while the
dancers use the
body. A T’boli chanter sings creation stories in a way that is different from
a classical singer
or pop music influenced by the Western music scale.
6. The dancer uses her body and its movement. Dance is often accompanied by
music, but thereare dances that do not rely on musical accompaniment to be
realized. Dance can tell stories, butthe other times, they convey abstract ideas that
do not rely on a narrative.
7. The theater artist integrates all the arts and uses the stage, production design,
performanceelements, and script to enable the visual, musical, dance and other
aspects to come together as awhole work.

8. The photographer and filmmaker use the camera to record the outside world. The
filmmakeruses the cinematographic camera to record and put together production
design, soundengineering, performance, and screenplay. In digital photography and
film, the images can be assimilated into the computer, thus eliminating the need for
celluloid or negatives, processing chemicals, or print.
9. The writer of a novel, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction uses words. The designer,
the performance artist and installation artist combine use of the range or materials
above

Technique is the way artists use and manipulate materials to achieve the desired
formal effect, and communicate the desired concept, or meaning, according to his
or her personal style (modern, Neoclassic, etc.). The distinctive character or nature
of the medium determines the technique.
Technique involves tools and technology, ranging from most traditional (for example
carving, silkscreen, analog photography, and filmmaking) to the most contemporary
(digital photography, digital filmmaking, music production, industrial design, and
robotics). Here are some of art techniques used by artists.
Here are some of the art techniques used by artists.
1. Collage - is the technique of an art production used in the visual arts where the
artwork is made from on assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Collage may sometimes include magazines and newspaper clippings, ribbons,
paints, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts,
photographs, and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas.
2. Decollage - is the opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up all or
parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, treating away or otherwise
removing pieces of an original image. The French word “Decollage” in English
means “Take-off” or “To become Unglued” or “To become unstuck”. Example of
decollage include cut-up technique. Similar technique is the lacerated poster, a
poster in which one has been over another.
3. Graffiti – are writing or drawings that have been scribed, scratched, or painted
illicitly on awall or other surface, often in a public space. Graffiti range from simple
written words toelaborate wall paintings. Graffiti may express underlying social and
political messages, and awhole genre of artistic expression is based spray paint
graffiti styles
4. Land Art – earth works, or earth arts is an art movement in which landscape
and the work ofart are inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in
nature, using natural materialssuch as soil, rock (bed rock, bolders, stones), organic
media (logs, branches, leaves), and waterwhich introduced materials such as
concrete, metal asphalt, or mineral pigments.
5. Digital Arts – is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an
essential part ofthe creative or presentation process. Digital art is work made with
digital technology or
presented on digital technology. This includes images done completely on computer
or hand-drawn images scanned into a computer and finished using a software
program like AdobeIllustrator. Digital art can also involve animation and 3D virtual
sculpture renderings as well
as projects that combine several technologies. Some digital art involves manipulatio
n of videoimages. After some resistance, the impact of digital technology has
transformed activities such as paintings, drawing, sculpture, and music/sound art,
while new form such as net art.
6. Mixed Media – It refers to a work of visual art that combines various
traditionally distinctvisual art. For example, work on canvas that combines paint, ink
and collage. When creating a painted or photograph work using mixed media, it is
important to choose the layers carefully andallow enough dying time between the
layers to ensure the final work will have structuralintegrity, if many different layers
are imposed. Many effects can be achieved by using mixedmedia. Found objects
can be used in conjunction with the traditional artist to attain a wide rangeof self-
expression

7. Print Making – is the process of making artworks by painting, normally in the

paper. Prints arecreated by transforming ink from a matrix ink from a matrix or
through a prepared screen to asheet of paper or other material. Common types of
matrices include metal plates, usually copperor zinc, or polymer plates for
engraving or etching; stone aluminum of polymer for
lithography; blocks of wood crafts and wood graving; and linoleum for linocuts. Scre
en made of silk orsynthetic fabrics are used for the screen-printing process.
8. Frottage – is the technique of rubbing with crayon on a piece of paper which has
been placed over an object or an image. The impression of the image can be
created using leaves, woods, wire screen, or metal with embossed image or words.
9. Decalcomania – is the process of applying gouache to paper or glass then
transferring areversal of the image onto canvas or other flat materials

10. Decoupage – is done by adhering cut-outs of paper and then coating these
with one ortransparent coating of varnish.11. Eggshell mosaic - is an artistic
technique that uses tiny parts of eggshell to create a wholeimage or object. Mosaics
are usually assembled using small tiles that are square, but they canalso be round
or randomly shaped.
12. Trapunto painting – is the technique used by Pacita Abad where her canvases
are padded,sewn, and often filled with sequins, beads, shell, buttons, tiny mirrors,
bits of glass, rickrack,swatches of precious textiles and other things that she picks
up from her travels and journey.
Art is considered an “artifact’ when it is directly experienced and perceived. It can
be spatial and
static or unmoving (e.g., a painting or building, or a novel) or time based and in
motion (e.g., alive theater production, mobile sculpture)

1. It is a defined as the material, or the substance out of which a works is made.

a. Artistic Skills c. Medium
b. Technique d. Natures of Art
2. Which of the following is classified as “two-dimensional” art?
a. Pottery c. Paintings
b. Sculpture d. Installation Art
3. The following uses “words” as medium for making art except ______.
a. Nonfiction c. Sculpture
b. Novel d. Poetry
4. These are the abilities that are possessed by the artists who operate the fine
art capacity.
a. Artistic Skills c. Mediums
b. Techniques d. Nature of Art
5. These are the manner in which artists use and manipulate materials to
achieve the desired formal effect, and communicate the desired concept, or
meaning, according to his or her personal style.
a. Artistic Skills c. Mediums
b. Techniques d. Nature of Art
6. This is a technique or rubbing with crayon on a piece of paper which has
been placed over an object or an image.
a. Decoupage c. Frottage
b. Trapunto d. Graffiti
7. The French word “Decollage” is English means ------
a. Take off c. Arrange
b. To glue together d. To stuck
8. It is an art form that is created in nature, using materials such as soil and
rock.
a. Land Art c. Mixed Media
b. Graffiti d. Trapunto painting
9. Digital Artwork are made with ---
a. Digital Technology c. Natural Materials
b. Pigments d. Assemblage of different forms
10.____ is the process of applying gouache to paper or glass then transferring it
reversal of the image onto canvas or other flat materials.
a. Decalcomania c. Print Making
b. Frottage d. Collage