The 

National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the official cultural agency of the government of the
Philippines, has categorized Filipino arts into traditional and non-traditional. Each category are split into
various arts, which in turn have sub-categories of their own.

Traditional arts like Folk architecture, weaving, carving, pottery and other artistic expressions of traditional
culture – including, but not limited to, non-ornamental metal crafts.

The archaeology of the Philippines is the study of past societies in the territory of the modern Republic
of the Philippines, an island country in Southeast Asia, through material culture. Very little
archaeological work was carried out in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period, even though
the Spaniards were interested in the people of the islands from an ethnographic and linguistic
perspective.

Pottery:

Native Filipinos created pottery since 3500 years ago. They used these ceramic jars to hold the
deceased. ... Filipino pottery had other uses as well. During the Neolithic period of the Philippines,
pottery was made for water vessels, plates, cups, and for many other uses.

Traditional pot-making in certain areas of the Philippines would use clay found near the Sibalom River.
Molding the clay required the use of wooden paddles, and the clay had to be kept away from sunlight.

Pots are ceramic vessels that are made by molding clay into its wanted shape and then leaving it in an
environment with an elevated temperature thereby making it solid and sturdy. It is widely recognized as
one of better tools that humans invented since it managed to store the surplus of food Neolithic humans
gathered.

Kalinga Pottery

Ceramic vessels of Kalinga are divided into three types: rice cooking (ittoyom), vegetable/meat cooking
(oppaya), and water storage (immosso) pots.

The Manunggul Jar is a secondary burial jar excavated from a Neolithic burial site in the Manunggul cave
of the Tabon Caves at Lipuun Point in Palawan, Philippines. It dates from 890–710 B.C. and the two
prominent figures at the top handle of its cover represent the journey of the soul to the afterlife.

The Manunggul Jar is widely acknowledged to be one of the finest Philippine pre-colonial artworks ever
produced and is considered a masterpiece of Philippine ceramics.
Balangay, also spelled barangay, is a type of lashed-lug boat built by joining planks edge-to-edge using
pins, dowels, and fiber lashings. They are found throughout the Philippines and were used largely as
trading ships up until the colonial era.

The oldest known balangay are the Butuan boats, which have been carbon-dated to 320 AD and were
recovered from several sites in Butuan, Agusan del Norte.

The kutiyapi, or kudyapi, is a Philippine two-stringed, fretted boat-lute. It is the only stringed instrument
among the Palawano people, and one of several among other groups such as the Maranao and Manobo.
It is four to six feet long with nine frets made of hardened beeswax. The instrument is carved out of solid
soft wood such as that from the jackfruit tree.

Forming flat shape Art into a 3D art

Hatching (hachure in French) is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing
(or painting or scribing) closely spaced parallel lines.

Crosshatching

Layers of hatching applied at different angles to create different textures and darker tones. At its
simplest, a layer of linear hatching is laid over another layer at a 90° angle, to which further diagonal
layers may be added. Other methods include layering arbitrary intersecting patches. Crosshatching in
which layers intersect at slight angles can create a rippled moiré effect.

Example: Albrecht Dürer, Veronica, engraving, 1513. Example of hatching (e.g., background) and cross-
hatching in many darker areas (visible if viewed at full size).

Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small
dots. Such a pattern may occur in nature and these effects are frequently emulated by artists.

Example: The Young Shepherd, engraving using stipple technique by Giulio Campagnola, around 1510

Blending is a term used often in art, particularly in painting and drawing. It is the technique of gently
intermingling two or more colors or values to create a gradual transition or to soften lines. As an artist,
it's important to practice blending in any medium you choose to work with.

Example: Paul Foxton