Learning new techniques

So, since I was interested in learning a new few techniques, I thought I would share the process that I go through to find inspiration with you.

So I think of the main things about art. and for this project I came up with these four: Media, Technique, Principles/Elements of art, and Subject. And for each category, I came up with 10 questions.

1. Media

-How do I mix watercolors?

- How do I blend acrylic paint?

- How do I create texture?

- How do I blend watercolors?

- How do you blend oil pastels?

- how do you use oil pastels?

- How to use charcoal?

- how to shade with charcoal?

- How to use polymer clay?

- How to sculpt and roll clay?

2 Technique

- How do I shade?

- How do I draw on black paper?

- How do you book bind/make a book?

- How do I blend?

- How do I paint?

- How do I use a blending stump?

- How to use a kneaded eraser?

- How to use chalk?

- How to paint a pear using acrylic paint?

- How to use oil paint?

3 Principles/Elements of art

- What is 1 point perspective?

- What is 3 point perspective?

- How to create Balance?

- How to get proportions right?

- How to provide variety in my art?

- How to create Rhythm?

- How to have harmony in art?

- How to emphasize?

- How to have texture?

- How to have great line work?

4 Subject

- How do I draw a horse running?

- a rose?

- Chibi batman?

- a Girl taking a selfie?

- How do I draw a galaxy?

- an eye?

- Hands?

- Feet?

- Hair?

- how to draw a wolf?

For each of these categories I found one tutorial from one of the questions I chose. I will link to the tutorials I found:

1: Media

The question I chose: how do I blend watercolors?

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0sKhTLEkcg

2: Technique
Question I chose: How to do book bind/make a book?
Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O4kFTOEh6k&list=PLRyCdG15JGuHr9PuWARvwkUXDze00eAqj&index=1&t=496s

3: Principles of Art
Question I chose: What is 3 point perspective?
Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPBaHkj753I

4: Subject
Question I chose: How to draw a rose?
Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPspMVnhj5s

Now i will choose one of these categories above (which the one im doing is Technique)
and complete the tutorial with it. In my case, its how to bookbind. I will post my results below. 

So first I Kettle stitch the book together:

 

Then I add the book cover and finishing touches after all the glue dries and other stuff. :)

 

Scavenger Hunt

Earlier today Me  Makayla nd  Julie dye did a scavenger hunt.
the objectives were to:

Find 4 types of paper and explain the difference..

find 1 non-paper material that you can create art on..

3 types of paint and explain the difference

and to find 5 non-paint materials that you could use to create a color artwork.

For the 4 types of paper.. these are our findings:

Toned Tan Paper

Tone Tan paper is a really thick paper that is well..Toned Tan.! it is really textured, and great for sketching, and finished art pieces. Not good for wet media, (or makeup apparently.. XD), White shows up really great on this type of paper.

Canson Mixed Media Sketchbook

Now Canson Mixed Media paper is really great for sketching, and also mixed media such as: Watercolor (maybe), acrylic paint (also maybe), and possibly Copics or any wet media, Which is why its called "Mixed media" so you can use things other than pencil.

Canson Sketch paper is a little thinner I suppose from the toned tan paper and obviously you cant see white on white. but you can use other mediums on this kind of paper unlike the toned tan.

Watercolor Paper

Watercolor paper is obviously the most ideal for using watercolors on. The paper is very textured and can hold heavy watercolors. (like if were to layer them.) it is the thickest paper of the 4 listed here, and can also be used for (but not recommended) Sketching, oilpastels, colored pencils, any dry media. But the purpose of this paper is to be used with watercolors, so that's the best medium to use for this type of paper.

Printer Paper

Just Regular Old printer paper. Not good for use with Watercolors, oilpastels, or any heavy media. Good for colored pencils, and sketching and graphite, also not good for charcoal. Is the thinnest most lightweight of the four types of paper listed.

Now on to the 4 non-paper materials that you could create art on:

Clay Table

This is a clay table where you can mold and make sculptures and do all of your clay doings on.

And 3 types of paint and their differences

Watercolor Paint



Watercolor paint is "a combination of pigment and gum arabic. Every paint medium is a combination of pigment and a binder. The binder determines the category of medium, which is to say, what type of paint it is. Oil paint is pigment + oil, usually linseed oil. Encaustic paint is pigment + wax. Acrylic paint is pigment + acrylic medium." (CREDIT:
https://thepostmansknock.com/all-about-watercolor-paints-guest-post-by-greenleaf-and-blueberry/)
Acrylic Paint


Acrylic Paint is water soluble when its wet, but dries quickly. it dries in like a "plastic-like film".

Metallic Paint



(BTW sorry if the picture is blurry D:) Metallic paint is basically a paint that shines when it dries, leaving a "Metallic" look to it. it works most similar to the Acrylic Paint.

5 non-paint materials that you could use to create a color artwork

Beads



Beads Can be used for a variety of things such as necklaces, bracelets, or you could even put them on a pipe cleaner and shape them into anything you want! You can also glue them onto paper to create kind of like a collage sort of thing, if that's what you want to do.

Construction paper


This is a butterfly made out of construction paper. you can make a lot of things with construction paper when you have a lot of different colors, scissors, and glue.

Cloth



Popsicle Stick



Scrap Metal

I had a lot of fun doing this, and I hope to do more stuff like this in the future!