In a Rut?

Post date: Sep 01, 2015 9:34:41 PM

If you feel like you're always using the same media and techniques (for example, a lot of your artworks are created using paints and/or pencil) then use this list to help you experiment with something different. Let me know if I've missed anything!!

Drawing

Use a range of drawing materials, such as:

• pencils or pens

• chalk

• felt-tip pens

• charcoal

• coloured pencils

• ‘Aquarel’ pencils

• crayons

• oil pastels

• oil sticks

• chalk pastels

• Indian ink

Use specific techniques, including:

• layering and blending

• limited colour range

• crayon and dye, or pastel and dye

• crayon or pastel sgraffito

• crayon or dye and Indian ink

• crayon batik. 

Painting

Use a range of the following:

paints – such as tempera, acrylic, watercolour, dye, oil, acrylic with oil glaze; 

painting tools – such as brushes, palette knife, card, sponges, rollers; 

painting surfaces – such as paper, card, wallpaper, canvas, hardboard, 3D forms, collage; 

styles – such as impressionist, pointillism, cubist; 

genres – such as still-life, portraiture, landscape, abstract; 

techniques – such as blending, under-painting, dry-brush work, over-painting, detailing, limited palette.

Printmaking

Use a range of the following:

• stamps

• leaves

• polystyrene or ball-point pen

• PVA glue and string

• monoprints

• card or collage relief

• screen prints

• lino or wood cuts – single colour and multi-coloured

• bamboo and 'Perspex' etching

• repeated patterns – such as tapa, fabric design, and border patterns

• marbling.

Collage

Use a range of papers, including: 

• torn paper 

• cut paper

• magazine pages

• made papers 

• commercial papers 

• tissues

• corrugated card. 

Use other materials, such as: 

• natural materials – for example, leaves, bark, feathers; 

• fabric. 

Use different techniques, including: 

• flat collage 

• relief (raised) pictures

• mosaic

• Glued, sewn, stapled together.

Fabric and Fiber

Weaving options:

• paper

• card/frame looms

• range of fibres, such as flax, wool, raffia

Stitchery options:

• simple embroidered stitches

• sewn collage

• appliqué.

Fabric treatment options:

• painting and drawing onto fabric

• batik

• printing onto fabric – for example, block prints and screen prints

• dyeing fabric

• soft sculpture

• wearable arts

• paper making

Modelling, Casting and Carving

Dough and clay options:

• relief tiles;

• three-dimensional (3D) models/sculptures;

• pinch pots, coiled work, slabs;

• finishing techniques – for example, oxidising and glazing;

• firing.

Carving materials:

• clay

• wood

• bone

• plaster

Papier maché options:

• paper strips

• paper pulp

• relief

• applied over 3D armatures.

Casting:

• plaster.

Construction/Assemblage

Materials options: 

• flat and rolled paper

• plain and corrugated card

• used boxes

• wood

• wire

• canvas

• cane

• junk/found items (Recycled Art)

• natural materials (Land Art)

Lens Based, Electronic and Screen Based

Time-based and sequential art: stop motion, animation, graphic novel, storyboard

Lens media: still (photography), moving (video), montage

Digital/Screen based: vector graphics, software generated, GIFs.

Design and Make

• Tools

• Toys

• Jewellery

• Books

• Container

• Furniture