SUPPORT AND

OTHER
MATERIALS
 PAPER
✘ most popular surface used for 2D artwork
✘ Organic medium made from cellulose pulp
derived mainly from wood, certain grasses and
linen rags --- it is processed into flexible sheets
or rolls

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 KINDS OF PAPER SUPPORT
✘ Laid paper – paper processed with a pattern of parallel
lines
✘ Textured pastel, charcoal and craft paper – fine
irregular texture
✘ Wove paper – paper is made on a woven wire cloth
✘ Rough grained paper – has a bumpy surface, good for
watercolor
✘ Medium paper – has fine grain that look subtle when
shading w/ a sharpened pencil
✘ Smooth-hot press – paper has been hot-rolled, very
smooth, flat surface 3
 WOVE
LAID CRAFT

ROUGH SMOOTH
GRAINED MEDIUM HOT PRESS 4
CANVAS
X most popular surface used for
2D artwork
X Made of a closely woven, heavy
cloth of cotton, hemp or linen
onto which painting is done
usually in oils

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WOOD
• Known as hardboard which is a
board/panel that is made from
wood
• Masonite – trademarked brand name of a
particular type of brand name of a particular
type of board made from wood fibers and glue
that is molded into a flat board
• Plywood – thin layers or slices of wood glued
together
• Laminated board – has mica film on its surface
to give it resistance and strength
WALL
✘ Traditionally may be
made of stone
✘ Recently, walls are now
being made of concrete

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CHARCOAL
✘ Organic drawing material from burnt
wood
✘ Vine charcoal – comes in thin sticks
and is easy to blend and erase
✘ Compressed charcoal – made up of
lose charcoal pressed into a stick

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GRAPHITE
- aka PENCILS
- Easier to use and less messy than
charcoal