Kinds of Arts

Arts can be classified into visual, performing or combined arts. Under these
classifications are other sub-classifications.
Visual Arts
Visual arts are the arts perceived with eyes. These may be classified into two groups:
graphic and plastic arts.
Graphic arts include artistic representation recorded on a flat or two-dimensional
surface such as painting, drawing, photography, etc
Painting is the process of applying pigments to a surface. Painting mediums include
oil, watercolor, tempera, and others. Canvas, wood, paper, and plaster are some of the
surfaces on which paintings are executed.
*Oil on the canvas effect
-the main advantage of oil paints are their flexibility and depth of color. They can be applied in Painting
many different ways from thin glazes diluted with turpentine to dense thick impasto. Because
it is slow to dry, artist can continue working the paint for much longer than other types of  Watercolor/watercolour – are aqaurelle is a painting method in which the paints are
paint made of pigment suspended in a water-based solution. Watercolor refers to both the
medium and the resulting artwork. Aquarelles painted with water-soluble colored ink
instead of modern water colors are called aquarellum atramento by experts
-normal canvas even if it has been gessoed, is generally not absorbent enough to work
well with watercolors. The watercolors would lift odd too easily, which would make
blending or overlaying colors particularly difficult.
 Printing is a process for making multi-
reproduction of graphic works. It involves the
GRAPHIC ART preparation of a master image of the drawing
or design on some durable material such as
wood, metal, or stone, from which printing is
done. It may be classified by the nature of the
surface from which the printing is done.

Relief printing is the process whereby unwanted portions of design are cut away
on the master image. The printed image is formed by the remaining surfaces. Examples
of this are linoleum cuts, woodcuts, and wood engravings.
 INTAGLIO PRINTING/PRINTMAKING: DRYPOINT
-a diamond-pointed needle is used to incise lines directly into a bare metal printing
plate, displacing ridges of metal that adhere to the edges of the incised lines. This
displaced metal is called burr. Inking fills the incised lines and clings to the burr. Damp
paper is placed on the plate and run through a press.
-Dry point involves drawing directly on a metal plate with a sharp needle and
scratches lines, or groove, into the metal. Ink is rubbed into the grooves and the
unscratched surface is wiped clean. In printing, the ink in the grooves is transferred to
paper.
Intaglio printing is a method of printing from a plate on which incised lines, which
carry the ink, leave a raised impression.
-intaglio- means engraving or incised figure in stone or other hard material depressed TOOLS
below the surface so that an impression from the design yields an image in relief
-opposite of relief painting, in that the printing is done from the ink that is below the
surface of the plate
-the design is cut, scratched or etched into the printing surface or plate which can be
copper, zinc, aluminum, magnesium, plastics or even coated paper.