CPAR Quarter 2 – Module 8: Week 7-8

Art Production: Painting and Sculpture

PAINTING
Painting refers to the process of applying color on a flat surface. Forms can be created using a
wide variety of materials such as watercolor, acrylic, ink, oil, pastel, and charcoal. Surfaces for
painting include wood, canvas, cardboard, and paper. Painting is considered two-dimensional,
meaning it only has height and width.
The following are the materials used in painting:
• Canvas (or any surface board like wood panel)
• Easel (or anything on which the canvass can stand steady)
• Assorted Paintbrushes
• Paints
Acrylic
Watercolor
Oil
Or anything (coffee, leaf extracts, etc.)
• Mixing Palette
• Paper Towels (rags)
FORMS OF PAINTING:
1. Easel Painting
 The most common form of painting which involves applying color to a board or canvas
that is fixed on an upright support called an easel. These are meant to be framed and
hanged on a wall after creating them.
2. Mural Painting
 Is described as a huge wall-sized painting used to impart messages to the public. A new
form of mural which is a portable mural, was developed in order to prevent the mural
from being erased from the wall which was created by using bold strokes in applying
bright colors on pieces of cheesecloth or canvas.
3. Telon Painting
 A telon is describes as a backdrop or back ground for the stage which are used for
komedya, sarswela, and sinakulo, the popular forms of theater in the country.
4. Jeepney and Calesa Painting
 The calesa is typically painted using one color. The borders of the calesa are decorated
with geometric patterns, repetitive patterns, and/or thin lines.
 Jeepney painting evolved from calesa painting. In a
typical jeepney, a logo, number, or painting is covered near the driver’s seat, as well as
near the seats adjacent to it.
5. Collage
 This refers to a form of painting that involves combine images in a single artwork. This
entails cutting and pasting materials such as paper, fabric, tin foil and other relatively flat
materials onto a board or canvas.
THEMES OF PAINTING:
Genre Painting
 Genre painting portrays people in daily activities.
Historical Painting
 Historical painting depicts a scene from the past. It often has a lesson concerning national
values.
Interiors
 This refers to painting of the space inside of a part of a house or a building. This usually
reveals the social class of the family living in that particular house, as well as the traits of
the people living in it.
Landscapes
 These painting portray natural scenery or urban scenes. Mixed media is now used in
creating landscape paintings. Closely related to landscapes are seascapes, which focus on
large bodies of water, particularly the ocean or the sea.
Portraits
 This refers to a painting portraying one or more specific individuals. This usually portrays
the physical characteristics of the subject and seeks to show an understanding of that
person’s character.
Nudes
 These are paintings that portray the unclothed human figure. Nowadays, a wide variety of
materials and styles can be used in painting nudes. Nude painting sessions are conducted
in galleries.
Religious Painting
 Common subjects of religious painting include a lone religious image, lives of the saints,
and scenes based from the Scriptures like the Nativity scene, and the Station of the Cross.
Still Life
 This refers to a painting that depicts natural or man-made objects that form a composition
in a natural setting.
SCULPTURE
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic
arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving and modelling; in stones, metals,
ceramics, woods and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete
freedom of materials and process. In contrast to painting, sculpture has three dimensions –
height, width, and depth. It is created by carving, modelling, or assembling parts together.
GENERAL KINDS OF SCULPTURE:
1. Free-standing
 This is a kind of sculpture that can independently stand in space. It has a flat horizontal
base. All its sides contribute to the overall form of the sculpture.
2. Relief
 This kind of sculpture does not have a flat horizontal base. The form is projected from a
flat surface. There are two types of relief – low relief or bas-relief which is slightly from
the flat surface; and high relief.
3. Assemblage
 This sculpture is formed by putting together materials such as found objects, pieces of
paper, sponges, wood scraps, and other materials.
4. Kinetic Sculpture
 This is considered as a sculpture in motion because the entire sculpture or some parts of
the sculpture are moving with the wind or are vibrating with the surrounding air.
5. Welded Sculptures
 Creating these sculptures involve the process of connecting sheets of metal together by
using an acetylene or electric torch.
6. Use of Glass
 A kind of sculpture where the medium of expression used by the artist is glass.
7. Symbolic Sculpture
 It is a kind of sculpture in which an abstract idea is represented by means of allegory and
personification.
Techniques or Processes in Sculpting:
1. Modelling is an additive sculpting process. Clay and wax are the most common modelling
materials, and the artist’s hands are the main tools, though metal and wood implements are often
employed in shaping.
2. Carving is a method of making a sculpture using a solid block of material, like wood or stone.
The artist removes areas to create the desired shape, cutting away the excess material from the
solid mass.
3. Assembling or Assemblage is a form of sculpture comprised of "found" objects arranged in
such a way that they create a piece. These objects can be anything organic or man-made.