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Traditional Technique
used in Creating
Philippine Art
Traditional Techniques AND PRACTICES Used in
Philippine Arts
What is Technique?
❑Technique is the way artist 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.)
❑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)
❑Traditional techniques used by the Filipinos even from the past years are
depicted in our painting, sculpture, dance, architecture, music, and even textile.
It only proves that Filipinos like any other people in the world can be very proud
of our Philippine arts.
Traditional Techniques AND PRACTICES Used in Philippine Arts
1. Wood Carving – a technique encompassing any form of working wood with a tool into
some sort of aesthetic object.
2. Molding – a technique of shaping liquid or pliable material such as clay. Traditional
pottery making in the Philippines involves the method of molding. Pottery making in
the Philippines is one of the longest traditions in Philippine art.
3. Fabric Weaving - Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets
of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.
❑Textile hand-weaving is one of the most attractive and interesting traditional crafts of
the Philippines, imbued with romanticism and laden with cultural significance
❑Textiles in Mindanao are predominantly handwoven from abaca (musa textilis). Among
the Moslems of Mindanao, the Magindanaon, Maranaw and Yakan continue the tradition
of cotton and silk weaving.
Traditional Techniques AND PRACTICES Used in Philippine Arts
4. Basketry Technique - There are four different types of basketry methods:

coiling, plaiting, wickering, and twining. Some of the terms that are specific to
basket weaving include loops, twining, ribs, and spokes. The common raw
materials used in making baskets are rattan, abaca, nito, tikog, buri, bamboo,
pandan, coconut leaves and sticks, palm leaves, and beeswax. There are several
baskets that use combined raw materials
▪ Coiled basketry, using grasses, rushes and pine needles
▪ Plaiting technique - interweaving or braiding two or more strands, fibers, etc.
▪ Twining technique, using materials from roots and tree bark. This is a weaving
technique where two or more flexible weaving elements ("weavers") cross each
other as they weave through the stiffer radial spokes
Artistic Skills and
Techniques
❑Many contemporary artists do not have
formal studies in the fine arts. Many of
them are self taught.
❑Concerned with the development of
their talent and skills in artmaking, they
study on their own, interact with artists
and read a lot about lives of artists and
their artworks.
❑They also explore the materials in
hardware stores, experiment with
chemical reactions on their base
material. Some hire resin makers,
house painters and materials
fabricators to help them in constructing
artworks.
ARTISTIC SKILLS
❑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.
art techniques used by
artists
art techniques used by artists
1. Collage – collage is a form of visual arts in which visual elements are
combined to create a new image that conveys a message or idea. Collage
comes from the French word “collér,” which means “to glue,” often the
primary means of combining images in collage art.
❑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
2. Decollage – is the opposite of collage; instead
of an image is 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”.
3. Graffiti – are writing or drawings that have been scribed,
scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface, often in
a public space. Graffiti range from simple written words to
elaborate wall paintings.
❑Graffiti may express underlying social and political messages,
and a whole 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 of art are
inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in
nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock (bed
rock, bolders, stones), organic media (logs, branches,
leaves), and water which 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 of the 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 Adobe Illustrator.
6. Mixed Media – It refers to a work of visual art that combines
various traditionally distinct visual 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 and allow enough dying time between the layers to
ensure the final work will have structural integrity, if many different
layers are imposed. Many effects can be achieved by using mixed
media. Found objects can be used in conjunction with the traditional
artist to attain a wide range of self expression.
7. Print Making – is the process of making artworks by
painting, normally in the paper. Prints are created by
transforming ink from a matrix ink from a matrix or through a
prepared screen to a sheet of paper or other material.
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 a reversal of the image onto canvas or other flat
materials.
➢A transfer technique, developed in the 18th century, in which ink,
paint, or another medium is spread onto a surface and, while still wet,
covered with material such as paper, glass, or aluminum foil, which,
when removed, transfers a pattern that may be further embellished
upon.
10. Decoupage – is done by adhering cut-outs of paper
and then coating these with one or transparent coating of
varnish.
11. Eggshell mosaic - is an artistic
technique that uses tiny parts of
art techniques eggshell to create a whole image or
object. Mosaics are usually
used by artists assembled using small tiles that are
square, but they can also be round
or randomly shaped
art techniques used by
artists
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.
What can I do:
Eggshells
Mosaic Making

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