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Category: ILLUSTRATION

Guerrilla art

Guerrilla art is a street art movement that first emerged in the UK, but has since spread across the world and is now established in most countries that already had developed graffiti scenes. In fact, it owes so much to the early graffiti movement, in the United States guerrilla art is still referred to as ‘post-graffiti art’. Guerrilla art differs from other art forms… Continue reading Guerrilla art

Painting

with e.g. Oil paint Acrylic paint Gouache / Watercolor etc. Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the “matrix” or “support”).[1] The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In… Continue reading Painting

charcoal chalk drawing

Artists’ charcoal is a form of a dry art medium made of finely ground organic materials that are held together by a gum or wax binder or produced without the use of binders by eliminating the oxygen inside the material during the production process.[1] These charcoals are often used by artists for their versatile properties, such as the rough texture that leaves marks… Continue reading charcoal chalk drawing

Sketch someone off blind

Nicolaïdes and Edwards propose different ideas of why blind contour drawing is an important method of drawing for art students. Nicolaïdes instructs students to keep the belief that the pencil point is actually touching the contour.[1] He suggested that the technique improves students’ drawings because it causes students to use both senses of sight and… Continue reading Sketch someone off blind

Collage

Collage (/kəˈlɑːʒ/, from the French: coller, “to glue” or “to stick together”;[1]) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pastiche, which is a “pasting” together.) A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored… Continue reading Collage