Observation

Most of the candidates answered the question correctly, while others answered out of context. The candidates’ performance was average.  The candidates were expected to provide the following answers to the question:

(a)        (i)         Rag rolling
A decorative technique in which wet scumble/gaze coat is manipulated with non-linty woolly material/absorbent paper dipped in white spirit and tightly twisted up, taken between fingers and thumbs of both hands and passed over the wet glaze with a rolling action from top to bottom/a space at a time.

            (ii)        Combing
The production of pattern by means of lifting wet colour or scumble to expose a ground colour, achieved with either steel, rubber or celluloid combs on scumble/glaze/flat oil paint.

            (iii)       Sponging
-           A decorative effect produced in flat oil paint or water paint. It consists of painting with a suitable colour, when it dries, colours are placed on palette and stippled on the surface; sponged/dabbed in motion to produce regular patterns with open and soft sponge.
-           A decorative effect obtained by dabbing the wet glaze with a sponge dipped in white spirit or with various colours on a dry painted or distempered ground colour.

            (iv)       Blending
The graduation of colour/scumble from light to dark or from one colour to another which can be achieved with spray gun, brush or hair stipplers.

(b)        -           Instructor/Tutor.
-           Wallpaperer.
-           Colour mixer/matcher.
-           Signwriter.
-           Decorative painter/house painter.
-           Glazier.
-           Spray painter.
-           Graphic artist.
-           Architect.

(c)