Friday, 27 December 2013

Art of Drawing and Carving

Art


A visual object created through imagination is called as art. The term art encompasses different media such as painting, sculpture, drawing, decorative arts, photography. In 21st century a variety of new media (i.e., video art) further challenged the traditional definitions of art


Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Instruments used include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax colour pencils, crayons, charcoal. various kinds of erasers, markers, styluses, and various metals (such as silver point). An artist who practices or works in drawing may be called a draftsman or draughtsman
                                                                                 
A drawing describing old Tamil poet ThiruValluvar
       

Carving

Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. The technique can be applied to any material that is solid enough to hold a form even when pieces have been removed from it, and yet soft enough for portions to be scraped away with available tools. Carving, as a means for making sculpture, is distinct from methods using soft and malleable materials like clay or melted glass, which may be shaped into the desired forms while soft and then harden into that form. Carving tends to require much more work than methods using malleable materials.

A soap carving describing the symbol of love

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