Reporter : Ma. Cazy C.

Buenavente, BSED-ID
Subject : HUMANITIES I
Topic : Mediums of the Visual Arts Painting – Water Color & Pastel
Teacher: Mrs. Criselda Serrano

Mediums of the Visual Arts Painting

WATER COLOR & PASTEL

Water Color
– Is a painting technique in which pigments suspended in a gum-arabic solution
– Are applied to a surface with brush and water

In general watercolor provides a brilliant transparency and freshness and allows very
free brushwork. In water color, the pigments are mixed with water and applied to fine,
white paper. The colors are applied in very thin layers.

Opaque water color – calle “gouche”

– Made by grinding opaque colors with water and mixing the product with a
preparation of gum by adding Chinese white to transparent water colors.

Pastel
– Is an art medium in which crayon like sticks of soft pigments are applied to paper

These pigments ranging from pure colors to mixtures with white, are held together by a
gum substance. Because many pastels contain white, the term pastel has come to
designate light, creamy colors. Pastel is a more recent process.

– Processes only surface light, gives no glazed effect and most closely resembles dry
pigment.