Art and Design A comprehensive guide for creative artists - Aaltodoc

Soap and wax
Rubber and
cork
Vegetables and
fruits
Printing with a
sponge
Cardboard
paper
Leaves
Mono printing
Others
Just like an eraser (rubber), designs can be
cut or carved using a stick or a knife on the
surface of soap. Add Ink and then print.
Because of their soft tissues, designs can be
easily cut on them. Certainly, most of the
available ink materials fit well on a rubber or
cork surfaces for the time of making prints.
Carrots, cucumber, onions, green pepper,
mushrooms, oranges and potatoes; cut the
fruit and immerse the clean and/or smooth
side—indicating a design into ink. Then
print.
Cut a sponge into different geometric
shapes of your choice; immerse the shapes
in paint or ink. Carefully, make prints by
stamping on a clean paper surface. Read more
about a Loofah sponge in Painting Techniques.
Shapes of designs can be cut from
a cardboard to be glued on another
cardboard surface to appear like a raised
shape of an image or picture. By using a
brush, paint can be smeared on the image.
Place a paper on top. Lift it off carefully after
some time to see the executed print.
They are among found objects. They can
be glued on a cardboard and by using a
brush apply paint or ink on one side of the
surface and then print. You can consider
natural objects like seaweed, feathers or
shells in a similar way to make more printing
experiments.
This method of printing produces one
print. Although, it can accommodate lots of
colours. An image with varied colours is put
below a clean glass panel, by using a small
brush and oil paints; you can paint again
the same image on the top side of the glass.
Then, place a clean paper or cloth on the
executed artwork—remove to check your
attained results.
A creatively adorned rolling pin, carbon
papers, fingers/hands, wires, a squashed
paper et cetera. All these and more can
be coated with ink to achieve some basic
knowledge of creating an artistic print.
In Jenkins' (1980; 146) view, “having the children walk the
potato (or whatever tool) across a paper and back again, in
orderly even steps” gives a good learning experience.
We can conclude from this that after this exploration, the
creative artist shall have enough and necessary knowledge
for future decision making about possible way of making a
print.
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Advertisement can simply be defined as announcing. Thus,
it can be done for social, commercial, political and very many
other notable reasons. Announcing or advertisement helps
to inform the public and it also gives publicity to products
or services using different attention catching means like
a television, radio and notices on message-boards, local
magazines and newspapers. Generally, most advertisements
use humour as an emotional appeal to catch attentions of
targeted audiences.
Useful ways of advertising
In the words of Katz (2010, 51), “There are various ways
of categorizing the media. We can contrast the print
media of magazines, newspapers and outdoor billboards
with electronic media—radio, Internet and TV.” Some
advertisers use exhibitions to draw people's attention and
to communicate—send messages about new products,
services, or events.
Here are some creative ways in which advertising can be
done effectively:
a. Text messaging is a method of advertising, which is
made available by mobile phone service providers.
Advertisements are transmitted through text messages,
faxing and by email to phone users by using an out of
voice service.
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programs and radio-stations.
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page sub divisions known as yellow pages. Some of the
adverts found on these pages are displayed in small or
full-page layouts—to make known the name, address
and telephone number of local businesses, individuals
as well as organisations.
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