chapter 6 &7: drawing and painting

chapter 6 &7: drawing and painting

1. Materials

   • Pigment
     • coloring material
     • Powdered color
   • Binder
     • Allows to adhere to the drawing
     • ensured paint will adhere to the surface
   • Medium/vehicle
     • liquid holds the particles of pigment together without dissolving them
   • support
     • surface on which the artist works
   • Ground/primer
     • Preliminary coating

2. Dry Media

   • Graphite
     • Carbon
       • Pencil
   • Metal Point
     • Made of silver
   • Charcoal
     • charred wood
   • Crayon
     • Binder is wax and oil
   • Pastels
     • oil pastels, creamier consistency
       • non-greasy binder gum with water

3. Liquid medi

   • Pen and Ink
     • Inks
       • Ultra fine particles of pigment suspended in water
         • ways to get ink on paper- sponge, pen, etc.
       • wash- ink diluted with water and applied with a brush
   • Encaustic
     • mixed w/ wax and resin
     • Art made with wax
   • Fresco
     • Mixed w/ water and applied to a plaster support plaster
       • Fresco secco-plaster dry
       • Buon fresco- wet lime plaster
   • Tempera
     • vehicle is egg yolk
       • dries fast
   • Oil Paints
     • Pigment compounded with linseed oil
       • dries slowly
     • Put veils of translucent color- glaze is used
     • Alla prima- painting was completed all at once
     • Impasto- thick and highly textured application of paint
   • watercolor
     • pigment in a vehicle of water
       • sticky plant substance and gum arabic
     • guache
       • with inert white pigment added. - opaque colors
   • Acrylic
     • vehicle of synthetic plastic
       • acrylic resin
         • polymerized
     • mimics watercolor, gouache, tampera

4. Collage

   • Representational painting
   • attaching actual objects to the surface of a canvas or other support

5. OFF THE WALL

   • Paintings done on a wall

6. ground- preliminary coating of paint