Art Production: Painting and Sculpture

sculpture

the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

are terracotta clay, bronze, metals, wood, stone, resin, or recycled materials.

The common materials used in sculpture

Modelling

is an additive sculpting process.

Clay and wax

the most common modeling materials,

the artist's hands

are the main tools, though metal and wood implements are often employed in shaping.

carving

method of making a sculpture using a solid block of material, like wood or stone.

carving

The artist removes areas to create the desired shape, cutting away the excess material from the solid mass.

chisels

which have straight cutting blades,

gouges,

which have convex cutting blades.

Carving

is considered a subtractive process because the excess material is removed in the process of creating a finished work.

Assembling or Assemblage

is a form of sculpture comprised of "found" objects arranged in such a way that they create a piece.

Assembling or Assemblage

These objects can be anything organic or man-made.

painting

practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface

"matrix" or "support"

solid surface

Canvas
Easel

Assorted Paint Brushes
Paint
Mixing Palette
Paper towels

The following are the materials used in painting:

• Acrylic

• Watercolor

• Oil

• Or anything (coffee, leaf extracts, etc.)

kinds of paint

Wet -on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt),

direct painting or au premier coup, is a painting technique in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint.

alla prima

Italian, meaning at first attempt

wet-on-wet or alla prima

Used mostly in oil painting, the technique requires a fast way of working, because the work has to be finished before the first layers have dried.

Grisaille and Glazing.

Although the definition of a grisaille is a fully realized (detailed) under painting done in grays, the term is often applied to under paintings in raw umber and other neutral tones as well.

Grisaille

Is a technique of monochrome painting in two or three shades of gray.