Art Techniques and Creative Thinking

CPAR Additional Notes

• Focus on emotive dark tones and expressive lines, conveying sadness
• Include vanishing point for depth
• Realistic three-dimensional quality achieved through hatching (parallel lines same direction), cross-hatching (parallel lines opposite direction), blending (using torchons in charcoal), and stippling (dot patterns)
• Pencil line and tone quality depends on sharpness of point, holding angle, and pressure
• Charcoal is held between thumb and first three fingers
• Smooth lines - pen, graphite
• Rough lines - crayons, chalk
• Dry media - pencils, pastels
• Wet media - water color
• Improve life drawing skills by regularly drawing live models
• Masterpieces created using dry or wet media
• Two-dimensional drawings have length and breadth, while three-dimensional drawings have length, breadth, and height.
• Strategy for enhancing insight stage: formulate unpredictable works, focus on preparatory stage

Creative Thinking Stages

• Preparation
• Incubation (period of germination, subconscious idea formation)
• Illumination (aha moment)
• Verification (expansions and development to a masterpiece)

Twibbons

• Overlay advocacy images on profile pictures for campaigns
• Example: Pepito forgot to change his profile picture to match team's before an intramural event, then quickly updated it.

Plain Weave

• Simplest and most common textile weave

Ikat Weave

• Intricate interlacing pattern, warp-faced, multiple warp threads over a single weft thread, creates dense, durable fabric

Other Weaving Techniques

• Bury Palms (fibers, petiole, leaves), Mountain Province (wood carvers)
• Paete Laguna (best wood carvers)
• Carving (oldest sculpture form)
• Molave (wood used for strength and durability)
• Craft (artistic process using common materials)
• Weaving (develops hand-eye coordination, self-expression)
• Craft (most innovative recycling form)
• Warp-faced weaving emphasizes horizontal threads, weft-faced emphasizes vertical ones, affecting strength and flexibility
• Pandan used as a medium in basket weaving (important culturally and economically)

Other Art Forms

• Addition: Materials combined.
• Substitution Imitating an image with a material.
• Subtraction Using sacred structures as an art medium.
• Food Art: Using edible items.
• Technological Art: Large scale, advancements in technology.

Common Sculptural Materials

• Sandstone (formed from sinking sand in earth's crust)
• Limestone (formed when sand sinks into the earth's crust)
• Soapstone (resists heat and compression)
• Granite (strong and durable)

Other Art Forms and Techniques

• Steel sculptures - strong and durable
• Bronze sculpture (patina protects it)
• Fishtail (wood finishing, lettering, modeling)
• Metalwork and Jewelry(diamond used and checked for authenticity)

Cultural Preservation

• National Museum of the Philippines (displays artifacts, promotes cultural heritage)
• National Commission for Culture and the Arts (government policy-making body for art, preserves styles)
• Cultural Center of the Philippines (premier venue for culture and arts performances)
• National Archives (responsible for preserving documents)
• National Library (provides access to printed and recorded cultural heritage)
• Rizal Monument (symbol of national struggle and victory)
• Bonifacio Monument (manifestation of national participation)

Painting Techniques

• Pigment painting (provides color)
• Solvent painting (thins paint for desired consistency)
• Tempera (dries quickly)
• Oil paints (capture detail and texture, slow drying time)
• Acrylic paints (educational, quick drying, sharper details)
• Wet-on-dry (control of edges)

Explore the various techniques of drawing, focusing on emotive expressions and realistic depth. This quiz covers foundational skills in both dry and wet media, as well as stages of creative thinking in art. Enhance your understanding of life drawing and artistic strategies.