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MODULE 6:
MEDIA FOR TWO-

DIMENSIONAL
ART
COLLAGE
Appearing at the beginning of the 20th century, Collage Art began as a
form of novelty art. This style explored the incorporation of many different
materials that were often glued together, to create a cutting-edge style of
craft art that had never been seen before. The aesthetic surrounding
Collage Art was described as being pieced together, which enabled the
production of utterly unique creations. Viewed under the guise of mixed
media, Collage Art typically explored the highs and lows that encompassed
the elements of formal art.
Collage is a medium that uses found objects or images such
as newspaper or other printed material, illustrations,
photographs, even string or fabric, to create images. It also
refers to works of art (paintings, drawings and prints) that
include pieces of collage within them.
PATCHWORK QUILT
Romare Bearden
OPENED BY CUSTOMS
Kurt Schwitters
DRAWING
• Drawing is the simplest and most effi cient
way to communicate visual ideas, and for
centuries charcoal, chalk, graphite and
paper have been adequate enough tools to
launch some of the most profound images in
art
• The traditional role of drawing was

to make sketches for larger
compositions to be manifest as
paintings, sculpture or even
architecture
TYPES OF
DRAWING
MEDIA
DRY MEDIA WET MEDIA
a includes charcoal, graphite, chalks and Includes using wet drawing materials
pastels. Each of these mediums gives the materials such as: ink and fi lt tip
artist a wide range of mark making
capabilities and eff ects, from thin lines to
large areas of color and tone.
DRY MEDIA
GRAPHI CHARCOA PASTEL

TE L
Graphite media includes Charcoal, perhaps the oldest form Pastels are essentially colored
pencils, powder or compressed of drawing media, is made by chalks usually compressed into
sticks. Each one creates a range simply charring wooden sticks or stick form for better handling.
of values depending on the small branches, called vine They are characterized by soft,
hardness or softness inherent charcoal, but is also available in a subtle changes in tone or color.
in the material. mechanically compressed form.
WET MEDIA
INK FELT
TIP
Ink can be applied

with a stick for linear
eff ects and by brush
to cover large areas
with tone. It can also
Felt tip pens are considered a form of wet
be diluted with water
media. The ink is saturated into felt strips
to create values of
inside the pen then released onto the paper
gray.
or other support through the tip. The ink
quickly dries, leaving a permanent mark.
PAINTING
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the
practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium
to a solid surface
Painting mediums are extremely versatile because they can

be applied to many diff erent surfaces (called supports)
including paper, wood, canvas, plaster, clay, lacquer and
concrete. Because paint is usually applied in a liquid or
semi-liquid state it has the ability to soak into porous
support material, which can, over time, weaken and damage
the it.
There are six major painting mediums,

each with specifi c individual
characteristics: ·
• Encaustic
• Tempera
• Fresco
• Oil
• Acrylic
• Watercolo
ENCAUS
TIC
Encaustic paint mixes dry

pigment with a heated beeswax
binder. Encaustic is a Greek
word meaning “to heat or burn
in” (enkaustikos).
TEMPERA
Tempera paint combines pigment
with an egg yolk binder, then
thinned and released with water.
Like encaustic, tempera has been
used for thousands of years. It
dries quickly to a durable matte
fi nish
Duccio, The Crevole Madonna, c. 1280.

Tempera on board.
Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena, Italy
FRESCO
• Fresco painting is used exclusively on plaster
walls and ceilings. The medium of fresco has
been used for thousands of years, but is most
associated with its use in Christian images
during the Renaissance period in Europ
• There are two forms of fresco: Buon or

“wet ”, and secco, meaning “dry ”.
OIL
a painting method involving the procedure
of painting with pigments with a medium of
drying oil as the binder. It has been the
most common technique for artistic
painting on canvas, wood panel or copper
for several centuries, spreading from
Europe to the rest of the world.
ACRYLIC
Acrylic paint was developed in the 1950’s
and became an alternative to oils. Pigment
is suspended in an acrylic polymer
emulsion binder and uses water as the
vehicle. The acrylic polymer has
characteristics like rubber or plastic.
WATERCOLOR
Watercolor is the most sensitive of the
painting mediums. It reacts to the lightest
touch of the artist and can become an over
worked mess in a moment. There are two
kinds of watercolor media:
• transparent
• opaque.
Transparent watercolor operates
in a reverse relationship to the other painting
mediums. It is traditionally applied to a
paper support, and relies on the whiteness of
the paper to refl ect light back through the
applied color (see below), whereas opaque
paints (including opaque watercolors) refl ect
light off the skin of the paint itself
PRINTMAKI
NG
Printmaking uses a transfer process
to make multiples from an original
image or template. The multiple
images are printed in an edition,
with each print signed and
numbered by the artist. All THREE BASIC TECHNIQUES OF PRINTMAKING
printmaking mediums result in 1. Relief Printing
images reversed from the original. 2. Intaglio Printing
Print results depend on how the 3. Planar Printing
template (or matrix) is prepared.
There are three basic techniques of
printmaking: Relief, Intaglio and
Planar.
Relief Printing
A relief print, such as a woodcut or linoleum cut, is created
when the areas of the matrix (plate or block) that are to show
the printed image are on the originalsurface; the parts of the
matrix that are to be ink free having been cut away, or
otherwise Removed. The printed surface is in relief from the
cut away sections of the plate. Once the area around the
image is cut away, the surface of the plate is rolled up with
ink. Paper is laid over the matrix, and both are run through a
press, transferring the ink from the surface of the matrix to
the paper. The nature of the relief process doesn’t allow for
Lots of detail, but does result in graphic images with strong
contrasts.
Intaglio Printing
Intaglio prints such as etchings, are made by incising channels into a copper or metal
plate with a sharp instrument called a burin to create the image, inking the entire plate,
then wiping the ink from the surface of the plate, leaving ink only in the incised channels
below the surface. Paper is laid over the plate and put through a press under
Planar Printing
Planar print like monoprints are created on
the surface of the matrix without any
cutting or incising. In this technique the
surface of the matrix (usually a thin metal
plate or Plexiglass) is completely covered
with ink, then areas are partially removed
by Wiping, scratching away or otherwise
removed to form the image.Paper is laid
over the matrix, then run through a press to
transfer the image to the paper.
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MODULE 6:

MEDIA FOR TWO-

• The traditional role of drawing was

GRAPHI CHARCOA PASTEL

Ink can be applied

Painting mediums are extremely versatile because they can

There are six major painting mediums,

Encaustic paint mixes dry

Duccio, The Crevole Madonna, c. 1280.

• There are two forms of fresco: Buon or

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