The document provides information on various artistic skills, techniques, and mediums used by different types of artists. It discusses skills used by sculptors, architects, painters, printmakers, musicians, dancers, theater artists, photographers, filmmakers, writers, and designers. It also explains different art techniques like collage, decollage, graffiti, land art, digital arts, mixed media, printmaking, frottage, decalcomania, and decoupage. The document concludes with providing a quiz to test the reader's understanding and assigning eggshell mosaic as an art technique for students to try.

1. ARTISTIC SKILLS
& TECHNIQUES

2. What is required to
become an artist?

3. Observe the photo below.
Write 5 sentences on what you
have observed.

4. Artistic Skills
 Are abilities possessed by
an artist who operate
within a fine art capacity.

5. Medium
The material, or the substance out of which a work is
made.
Through these materials, the artists express and
communicate feelings and ideas

6. The Sculptor
uses metal, wood, stone, clay, and glass.
Sculptures fall within the category of “three-
dimensional” arts because they occupy space
and have volume.
Pottery is a form of sculpture.
 Other examples are nudes or figures such as Guillermo
Tolentino’s Oblation, ritual objects such as bulul wood
carvings in the cordillera, or the santosor carvings of saints
in Christian churches.

7. The Architect
uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone,
concrete and various building
materials.
Buildings are also called “three-
dimensional”.
However, architecture has the added
element of time since we move into
structures.

8. The Painter
uses pigments (e. g.
watercolor, oil, tempera,
textile paint, acrylic, ink, etc.)
on
a usually flat ground (wood,
canvas, paper, stone wall
such as cave paintings.)

9. The Print
maker
 uses ink printed or transferred on a surface (wood,
metal plates, or silk screen) that is keeping with a
duplicating or reproducing process.
 Prints and paintings are further classified as “two-
dimensional” arts, because they include the surface or
ground on which coloring substances are applied.
 However, while paintings are unique and one-of-a
kind, prints can be reproduced in several pre
determined editions.

10. The
Musician
 uses sound and instruments
(including human voice), while the
dancers use the body.
 A T’boli chanter sings creation
stories in a way that is different from
a classical singer or pop music
influenced by the Western music
scale.

11. The Dancer
 uses he body and its movement.
 Dance is often accompanied by music,
but there are dances that do not rely on
musical accompaniment to be realized.
 Dance can tell stories, but the other
times, they convey abstract ideas that do
not rely on a narrative.

12. The Theater
Artist
 integrates all the arts and uses the
stage, production design,
performance
elements, and script to enable the
visual, musical, dance and other
aspects to come together
as a whole work

13. The
Photographer &
Filmmaker
 use the camera to record the outside world.
 The filmmaker uses the cinematographic
camera to record and put together production
design,
sound engineering, performance, and
screenplay.
 In digital photography and film, the images
can be assimilated into the computer, thus
eliminating the need for celluloid or negatives,
processing chemicals, or print.

14. The writer of a
novel, poetry,
fiction &
nonfiction
 uses words.
 The designer, the performance
artist and installation artist
combine use of the range or
materials above.

15. TECHNIQUE

16. Technique
 the way artists 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.).
 nature of the medium determines the 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).

17. Art Techniques used by
Artists:
 Collage
 Decollage
 Graffiti
 Land Art
 Digital Arts
 Mixed Media
 Print making
 Frottage
 Decalcomania
 Decoupage
 Eggshell Mosiac
 Trapunto Painting

18. Collage
is the 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.

19. 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”.
 cut-up technique
 Lacerated poster

20. Graffiti
 are writing or drawings
that have been scribed,
scratched, or painted
illicitly on a wall or other
surface, often in a public
space.

21. 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.

22. Digital Art
 is an artistic work or practice
that uses digital technology as
an essential part of
the creative or presentation
process.
 animation and 3D virtual
sculpture renderings

23. 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.

24. Print
making
 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.
 Common types of matrices include metal plates,
usually copper or zinc, or polymer plates for
engraving or etching; stone aluminum of
polymer for lithography; blocks of wood crafts
and wood graving; and linoleum for linocuts.
Screen made of silk or synthetic fabrics are used
for the screen-printing process

25. Frottage
 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.

26. Decalcomani
a
 the process of applying
gouache to paper or glass
then transferring a
reversal of the image onto
canvas or other flat
materials.

27. Decoupag
e
 done by adhering cut-outs
of paper and then coating
these with one or
transparent coating of
varnish.

28. Eggshell
Mosiac
 an artistic technique that
uses tiny parts of eggshell to
create a whole
image or object. Mosaics are
usually assembled using
small tiles that are square,
but they can also be round
or randomly shaped.

29. Trapunto
painting
 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.

30. Note:
 Art is considered an “artifact’ when it is directly experienced and
perceived. It can be spatial and static or unmoving (e.g., a painting or
building, or a novel) or time based and in motion (e.g., a live theater
production, mobile sculpture).
 To know the full meaning of a work, it is also necessary to study the
material from which it is made and how it is made.

31. Let’s Imagine
Imagine you are going to have an art exhibit that will stage in a major mall in your
place. Answer the guide questions below to create a concept of your art exhibit.
Guide questions:
1. What artistic skill/s should I use?
2. What medium/s should I use?
3. What technique/s should I use?
4. How big or small is my exhibit? Should I display it inside or outside the mall?
5. Should I open my art exhibit to public?

32. Quiz:
1. An artwork made with digital technology or presented
on digital technology. This includes images done
completely on computer.
a. Collage c. Print Making
b. Land art d. Digital Art

33. Quiz
2. An artwork made with digital technology or presented on digital
technology. This includes images done completely on computer.
a. Collage c. Print Making
b. Land art d. Digital Art

34. Quiz
3. It is the art process of making artworks by painting
normally in the paper.
a. Collage c. Print Making
b. Land art d. Digital Art

35. Quiz
4. Instead of an image is being built up, all parts of
existing images, it is created by cutting or treating
away from its original image.
a. Decollage c. Print Making
b. Land art d. Digital Art

36. Quiz
5. These are writings or drawing that have been
scribe, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other
surface often in a public space.
a. Land Arts c. Digital Arts
b. Collage d. Graffiti

37. ANSWER:

38. Assignment: Eggshell
Mosaic
Create a contemporary art using the eggshell mosaic art technique.
Gather the materials you need and follow the steps in collage making.
Materials you need:
• 1 Oslo paper
• Eggshells (cleaned and dried)
• Glue
• Watercolor/ acrylic paint/ dye/ other coloring materials
• Pencil
• Marker

39. Assignment: Eggshell
Mosaic
How to Make:
Step 1. Decide on a theme or idea for your collage (example ideas: landscapes, flowers, event, etc.).
Sketch it first on your Oslo paper using a pencil.
Step 2. Using the marker, outline your sketch.
Step 3. Take your eggshells and break them into small pieces. Arrange the eggshells onto the paper.
Make sure you do not cover the outline of your sketch.
Step 4. If you are satisfied with the arrangement of the eggshells, carefully glue the pieces of eggshells
together. Let it dry.
Step 5. Add accent pieces using the coloring material. Using watercolor, acrylic paint, dye or other
coloring materials, color the eggshells according to your taste and creativity.

40. Assignment: Eggshell
Mosaic

41. Thank you!