Mediums and Techniques of Visual Arts
Mediums of Visual Arts
Medium
 Denotes the means by which an artists
communicates his ideas
 Something that translates his feelings or
thoughts into a beautiful reality
The Mediums of Visual Art in 2-D Water Color
Acrylic
Stained glass
Tapestry
Oil
Crayons
Charcoal
Fresco
Pastel and Chalk
Mosaic
Tempera
Encaustic
Water Color
A simple coloring medium. Has less luminous
effect when applied but easy to use
Fresco
A paint on a moist plaster surface applied with
lime water mixture
Pastel and Chalk
Dry pigments held together by a gum binder
and compressed into stick
Oil
Is pigment mixed with linseed oil and applied in
canvass
Expensive, Flexible, Glossy, Dries slowly but
lasts long
Tempera
A mineral pigment mixed with egg yolk or egg
white and ore
Encaustic
Used by Egyptian in the portrait of face as in
the case of community Done with wax colors
by the use of heat
Acrylic
A medium most widely used by the painters
these days because of the characteristics of
transparency and quick drying
Stained Glass
Is a combination of small pieces of colored
glass held together by hands of lead
Tapestry
A fabric consisting of warp where colored
threads are woven to make designs
Used in wall hangings or furniture cover
Mosaic
A picture decoration which are cut small pieces
of colored stones or glass and glued or pasted
on a surface with cement or plaster
Crayons
Are pigments bound by wax and compressed
into painted sticks used by students
Charcoal
Made from carbonized materials from
heating wood
The Mediums of Visual Art in 3-D
Stone
Copper
Granite
Gold
Marble
Silver
Jade
Lead
Ivory
Metal
Plaster
Clay
Bronze brass
Glass
Wood
Printing
In art this means reproduction.
A single design is made to be multiplied
Nowadays printing is a popular as painting and
sculpture
4 major processes of Printmaking
Relief Printing
Intaglio Printing
Planagraphic Process
Stencil Process
Relief Printing
Is a process of cutting away a portion in a
which is not needed
Intaglio Printing
The process in the preparation of the
impression is the those of relief opposite of
printing
Intaglio Printing
Scratched
Etched
Engraved
Burin
The most widely used with the use of cutting
tool
Planagraphic Process
 A surface painting treated first chemically
or mechanically so some areas while others
have printing have none
 The process is drawing the design with a
greasy crayon and fixed with an acid
solution
Stencil Process
Done by cutting out a paper, cardboard or
metal sheet so when ink is rubbed over it
Stencil Process
Silkscreen
Fundamentally multi-color process
Photography
 An actual likeness of the design
 It is the use of camera to produced the
desired copy
 Literally drawing or writing with light