They did what....?

Have you ever wondered what an artist did to create a certain look to their art?

We know there are so many ways to make art and artists use a wide range of materials (art mediums).  How artists use their skills (-your ability to do something) with the materials is called technique.  Let's look at some art techniques in each studio.

Look at the many techniques this artist used.  Can you name a few?  Maybe you have used some of these methods in your art.

Do you see paper weaving?

Sgraffito in the sky.

And overlapping collage.

Starting in the Drawing Studio, what techniques can you identify in the art works below? 

DRAWING STUDIO

This technique uses many tiny dots to color in a work of art.  This technique can be done in drawing or painting.  

Stippling or Pointillism.

Cross Hatching
intersecting lines shade the object.  The lines criss cross to create dark, medium and light values.

*(4th and 5th)

Perspective--with a vanishing point on the horizon line, the artist uses a ruler to create vanishing lines that make the artwork appear to go back into the space.

PAINTING STUDIO

Can you name two watercolor techniques in this landscape?

Dry Brush and Wet on Wet watercolor.

A dry brush with paint creates textured lines and wet paint on wet paint fuses into the wet paper creating a soft flowing effect.

Oil pastel resist

What do you know about oil and water?  The oil pastel repels the watercolor paint.  The oil pastel line drawing shows through the paint.  This works with watercolor paint.

Salt and Watercolor

a small sprinkle of salt on watercolor --this primarily works on watercolor.  The salt absorbs the moisture creating a speckled effect.

What is the technique called that involves scratching through
 one layer of paint to reveal another underneath?

Sgrafitto.

COLLAGE STUDIO

Torn Paper Collage

Notice the texture the torn paper creates in the sky and mountains.  The soft torn paper texture helps create which part of the owl?

Cut Paper Collage

Scissors create a straight smooth edge to a collage.  Quite different than the texture of torn paper.  Cutting or tearing will give your art a different look or feel.

Mixed Media Collage

Add Something besides paper.

Use fabric, ribbon, yarn, corrugated cardboard, plastic and foam shapes.  These materials will give your art texture and interest.

PRINTMAKING STUDIO

Paint on the bubble wrap and press it where you want dots to appear on your paper.

Bubble Wrap Print

Styrofoam Printmaking

a design is made by indenting a foam sheet and then transferred to paper using ink.

SCULPTURE STUDIO

SLIT is a great technique to join cardboard.  And look what a little paint can do for a sculpture.  Try using kwik sticks or tempera paint in the egg carton.

CLAY STUDIO

In the clay studio we learn 3 basic techniques. 

Which technique was used to create the owl plant holder and the snowman dish?

Pinch Pot.

Rolling clay into long round cylinder pieces will give you this ceramic technique.  It would be a great method to make a handle on a mug.  Which technique did the artist use?  

Coil!

Consider technique and combining more than one method in your artwork.

Get creative and brave! Use a technique you haven't tried out in your art yet.  

Demonstration:

oil pastel resist

salt on watercolor

Sgraffito 

watercolor and tempera paint comparison Sharpie marker.  Translucent and Transparent.

Clay Studio --Stretch and Explore

So, you can make a PINCH POT and know a few other ceramic techniques! 

Now What?

  

Stretch and explore those skills

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What if you join two pinch pots together?   Look at the texture lines and marks in the clay!  If your pinch pot is too small pinch more and next time get a bigger piece of clay.

Now let's try that in the opposite direction joining the rims together.  Add several tiny round pieces of clay inside and it will rattle.

don't forget to add ONE NEEDLE HOLE!! when enclosing air in clay

Slip and Score and then smooth where they meet and create a seam.

Add FEET!

Here's a similar pinch pot with a face and 3 coil legs.

Look at the possibilities

You can roll coils to make spiral foot, long or short legs. Or a coil into a ring to make a coiled foot ring.  

Don't forget to score and slip

Maybe you will add texture to your Pinch Pot.

Texture can really add interest to your CLAY art

      

Carefully press a tool into the clay to leave interesting marks, patterns and designs

Compare these two projects.  Sometimes texture can make all the difference

Look at these two fish.  One has texture and pattern and one is smooth.  One is not better than the other.  Which is more interesting to look at?

Here is a similar idea with a different animal cut out of a slab.
Roll out a slab and cut into a circle.  ADD TEXTURE.  fold in sides to make wings.

Fold the top downward to make the head.  Add Details.  Slip and score a beak.

How can you combine another studio with your clay art.  Let's look at how you can make clay pendants for jewelry.

Roll a slab and cut the outline or contour line

Add texture and design.  Lastly don't forget a hole for a string you will add later.

Make two small charms and now you can make earrings.

Don't forget COILS coils are a great technique to use in the Clay Studio slip and score is so important with coils Add texture on your coils and more SLAB ideas Slab tile houses and Name plates.  What do you need to add if you plan to hang this up? Clay portraits.  SLIP and SCORE Troubleshooting Clay Studio. My clay is too soft and is collapsing.  -- Let is sit for a bit and dry to make the clay more firm. I slipped and Scored but my pieces of clay didn't attach----did you use slip?  did you make enough scratches into the clay?  did you push and wiggle the pieces together. My glaze isn't very dark or bright.  --did you use 2 coats? *Size of clay = size of your art *you can write your name with a pencil *demo making a hole