ART APPRECIATION
 A course of study that helps students
understand and describe what they see
and experience when they look at
“material culture”
 The more you appreciate and understand
the art of different eras, the better you can
develop, evaluate and improve your own
artwork.
HUMANITIES
 Humanities allows people of different
cultures to communicate and understand
their sometimes common pasts but present
differences.
 Humanities include ancient and modern
languages, literature, philosophy, history,
human geography, law, politics, religion,
and art.
ART HISTORY
 Art History is the academic study of history
and development of painting, sculpture,
design, and format.
 The study of the history of art is not just a
study of history, but a study of aesthetics.
Why do people create works of Arts?
 Because making art may reduce stress.
 Turning our problem into narratives can
help us work through them.
 Playing music is associated with cognitive
gains
CREATIVITY
 The original ideas or imaginations and think
of new ideas.
MISCONCEPTION ABOUT ARTS
Art must be perfect.
 Misconception: Because it’s art, everything
must be well-thought out and properly
executed.
More colors are always better.
 Misconception: Because art is all about
artistic value and colors are all about raising
it, naturally, more colors equals more
aesthetic value
Painting is easy
 Misconception: Because they have talent,
it shouldn’t take long for an artist to finish
one painting.
Quantity equals quality.
 Misconception: Because higher prices
almost often indicate higher quality,
therefore, it’s not good art if the price tag is
cheap
Differentiate Art from Nature.
 Art is basically creation by human beings
though there are natural creations.
 Art has been defined as “the use of skill and
imagination in the creation of aesthetic
objects, environments, or experiences that
can be shared with others”
 Nature is well known that nature is original
and art is only a creation by human beings
KINDS OF PENCILS
 Graphite Pencil  Copying Pencil
 Charcoal Pencil  Erasable color Pencil
 Carbon Pencil  Non-reproducing
 Colored Pencil  Stenographer's Pencil
 Grease Pencil  Golf Pencil
 Watercolor Pencil  Mechanical Pencil
 Carpenter's Pencil  Pop a Point Pencils
 Plastic pencils
Graphite Pencil
 Standard everyday pencils with a core of
clay and graphite and a casing of wood.
Charcoal pencils
 Pencils shaped like sticks and made of
charcoal and used in art.
 They are black and darker that graphite
pencil.
Carbon pencils
 Pencils made of a mixture of clay and lamp
black.
 Their darkness changes with mixing with
charcoal or graphite.
 They are still darker than pencils but
smoother than charcoal pencils.
Colored Pencil
 Pencils with wax-based cores that have
pigments mixed in them with additives
Grease pencils
 Pencil made of wax core and, most often,
with paper casing.
 They can write on almost every surface and
it rarely scratches the surface it is used on.
Watercolor pencils
 A subtype of colored pencils.
 They are made of a material whose mark
can be dissolved in water.
Carpenter's pencils
 Pencils made of strong graphite and in an
oval body.
 They are designed to be durable, not to
break easily and not to roll off the desk.
Copying pencils
 Pencils whose core has dye that can write
as a normal pencil
 But, when water is added to the mark that is
left on the paper it dissolves and can be
copied to the other paper by pressing.
Erasable color pencils
Like their name says, color pencils that can be
erased unlike wax-based colored pencils.
They are used for sketching and in animation
Non-reproducing Pencil
 Pencil that cannot be copied by
photocopying machines.
 Today it is used for drawing the sketches
that will later be scanned and when turned
to grayscale
Stenographer's pencil
 Very reliable pencil with lead that is break
proof.
Golf pencil
 Short standard pencil that is used for
marking the score in golf.
 The common length is 9 cm.
 Also known as ‘library pencil’.
Mechanical Pencil
 Pencils which use mechanism to push lead
through a hole at the end.
 They use special leads that have precise
diameter for the pencil.
 They are used for writing and technical
drawing.
Pop a Point Pencils
 Pencils that have many short pencil tips
housed in a cartridge-style plastic holder
 They are not sharpened but when one
piece is dull it is removed from the front
and pushed in the rear of the pencil,
pushing all the pieces and the new, sharp
one appears at the front.
Plastic pencils
 They are flexible and can be bended
without breaking.