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Materials used in Art
Materials used in Art
To create an artwork, we need some tools and
materials to perform our task. Although art is all
about our imagination, creativity and expression. But
to execute our thoughts, expression and imagination
we need to create an artwork on a given surface or
platform. For this, we require specific tools like pencils,
brushes, palettes, colours, charcoals, canvases, erasers,
a piece of cloth etc.

Here are some of the tools and materials used in drawing and painting and in sculptors.

1. Pencils are available in different degree from hard generally written by sketch pens. Solid hard lines
to soft graphite. H means hard, B means black. are easily created by sketch pens.
Pencils are used to sketch a drawing. Stippling, 9. Charcoal is a dry and dusty medium made from
hatching, cross hatching and linear drawing burnt wood. It leaves less permanent mark like
techniques are used to create textures, value and other media such as graphite. It can produce lines
to highlight and shade part of an object that are very light or intensely black.
2. Pens are used for free hand designing and to create 10. Palette is used to mix colour with different
outline. More use of pens are seen nowadays as mediums. To make various shades and tint palette
this is easy to use. Black gel pen outlines a picture. is an important material. Artists should clean it
The only drawback is that we cannot erase it easily regularly to get better colour mixture.
when something goes wrong.
11. Eraser is used to rub off the mistakes made in
3. Brushes of different sizes are required to colour a pencil drawing. The right type of eraser are
the artwork . 0 – 2 number brush are satisfactory required for each drawing medium as it can make
for drawing and colouring thin lines. For applying all the difference to our art work.
washes of tone, 6 – 10 number brush are capable
for painting an artwork. 12. Sharpener is used to sharpen lead into a conical
shape quickly. In drafting, continuous lines, dashed
4. Paper is the most important of all the materials for lines and chain lines need to be differentiated.
creating an artwork. It provides the basic platform
for an artwork. Various paper are been used by 13. Drawing board is an wooden flat surface which is
artist in order to get the desired output. used as a drawing board. These boards are usually
made from soft woods, with squared corners and
5. Water colour is a translucent medium which edges. It comes in various sizes.
changes hues as it dries. We can play it by adding 14. Modelling clay is a soft substance like clay
water to the surface (paper) .
produced in different colours, used especially by
6. Poster colour is ideal for a smooth matt finish and children to make shapes and models.
a completely opaque mass tone. It flows easily and 15. Masking tape are used to protect (isolate) a
evenly in surface area.
certain area on painting paper. This way, we can
7. Colour pencil are used to sketch or to paint an create frames around our painting, and sometimes
artwork which has a line or texture type feeling. hide an area which are not needed.
In an artwork, the effect of pencil colour is pure, Apart from these materials many more materials and
clean and bright. tools are used like, scissors, knife, piece of clothes,
8. Sketch pen has a wide range of colours. They are rubber, synthesizer, easel, canvas, oil, resine products,
ideal for creating loose lines, calligraphic art are blowers, etc.

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