AMS Art
Art Teacher: Julie Kopp-Landry
Clay/Ceramics
Sculpting
Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take varied forms, including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is a visual art.
There are essentially three types of glazes you'll find used in ceramics — matte, gloss, and satin
Ceramics are items made from a non-metal material (such as clay) that changes when exposed to high heat (like that lump of clay “turning” into a beautiful sculpture). Pottery is a type of ceramic, specifically a vessel that holds something (coffee mug, cereal bowl).
Color Wheels
Creative Color Wheels
The color wheel is a visual representation of the primary colors and how they combine to create all other visible colors. The color wheel is helpful for understanding the relationships between colors for art, design planning and color schemes.
The color wheel was invented in 1666 by Isaac Newton, who mapped the color spectrum onto a circle. The color wheel is the basis of color theory.
Paint
Paint as a Medium
Popular mediums with painters all over the world: acrylic, watercolor, oil, gouache, and ink.
Water Based paint is a type of fast drying, high opacity paint that comes in a range of brilliant colors.
Due to its formulation, this paint can be mixed with water before drying, which allows it to be manipulated with different techniques and even combined with other colors, extending its possibilities immensely.
Symmetry
Symmetry in art is a formal type of balance that consists of mirroring portions of an image. As a general rule, a symmetrical drawing has identical parts mirrored across the symmetry line, implied or actual.
The mirroring might not be exact with symmetry, especially when it’s not a geometrical drawing. Yet, if you can draw an obvious symmetry line on top of an image, symmetry is involved.
Symmetry can be found almost everywhere in nature, even in the human body itself, starting from your very own face. Leaves, flowers, fruit, butterfly wings – look closely, and you will find symmetrical things everywhere around you.
Pointillism
is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
Perspective
Perspective Drawing
The basic elements of perspective drawing. In order to understand human perception, there are three important tools for perspective drawing: The horizon line, vanishing points, and vanishing lines.
Perspective in art refers to the representation of three-dimensional objects or spaces in two dimensional artworks. Artists use perspective techniques to create a realistic impression of depth, 'play with' perspective to present dramatic or disorientating images.
3D
3 Demensional Art
Paper Mache is derived from the French term “Papier-mâché”, the literal translation of which is “chewed paper”.
Often thought of as being used to cover balloons in newspaper and wallpaper paste. Actually, papier mâché was an important method of creating mass produced, inexpensive objects, both useful and decorative.
Ink
Ink Drawing
Pen and ink art is the process of using pens to apply ink to a surface. It has been popular with artists for many years, originating in ancient cultures. One of the earliest surviving pen and ink drawings is The Abduction of Briseis, drawn by an unknown Greek artist using pen and dye on papyrus around 300 BC
- Watercolor Inks. Generally much brighter than basic watercolors, these inks can be used alone or with watercolors to make areas of paintings pop.
- Alcohol Inks. Alcohol inks are dye-based and transparent that are most often used to layer color. ...
- India Inks. ...
- Acrylic Inks.