On 27 Jul, 2005 With
The art industry has always been, and probably always will be, very in demand. Not only because everyone enjoys and good work of art, but because businesses depend on creative marketing images to capture buyer attention. Advertising is arguably the biggest business in the US, if not the world, so the need for cutting edge and clever artistic images is always expanding. The average starting salary for graphic artists alone starts around $15/hr and can skyrocket from there. About 63% of traditional and digital artists are self employed and many of them earn even more than salaried artists. Just knowing these figures is enough to make some want to run out and enroll in the closest art school. However, there…
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On 14 May, 2005 With
Edinburgh is noted for being a cultured city and as well as annually celebrating the performing arts every summer when the city becomes a stage for thousands of performers taking part in The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, it also boasts a large number of museums and art galleries containing some of the world’s finest art pieces. The Edinburgh National Gallery on Princes Street is currently home to The Discovery of Spain exhibition, which runs until mid-October 2009. Assorted works painted by well-known Spanish artists and owned by British collectors will be on display including items by Picasso, Goya, El Greco and Velázquez. Timed to coincide with the 2009 Edinburgh Festival this spectacular collection is billed as the highlight of the National…
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On 6 Mar, 2005 With
Scumbling techniques have been used by master painters since the 1600s to create smooth gradations, modify a previously dried layer of paint and to add a sense of depth. This technique is accomplished by applying thin layers of light opaque colors over dark layers of dried transparent paint. The final results gives a painting a surface that various in how much of the under painting is revealed. An ultra thin layer of an opaque paint can soften an area of a painting while giving it a misty, almost out of focus look that might be typical of background objects. Adding a thicker layer of paint to an area would naturally give that object an appearance of being in the foreground….
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On 5 Dec, 2004 With
In this article I will detail the tube colors of a starter palette for beginning artists. These are in fact the colors I personally use most often Here is the proposed 6-color palette: 1. Lemon Yellow 2. Cadmium Yellow 3. Cadmium Red 4. Permanent Rose (Alizarin Crimson) 5. French Ultramarine 6. Phthalo Blue 7. Titanium White 8. Ivory Black Note that White and Black are generally not classified as colors. A color is often known by different names depending on the manufacturer. For example, Permanent Rose is more or less the same as Alizarin Crimson. The above palette has the capacity to produce very clean secondary colors, i.e., colors that are a mixture of just two tube colors. Notice that…
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On 5 Dec, 2004 With
In this article I will discuss the tube colors belonging to an advanced palette based on a basic 6-color palette. I find these colors the most useful and often necessary to round out a versatile palette. The 6-color basic palette consists of the following colors: 1. Lemon Yellow 2. Cadmium Yellow 3. Cadmium Red 4. Permanent Rose 5. French Ultramarine 6. Phthalo Blue To these 6 colors we, of course, add 7. Titanium White 8. Ivory Black Note that you can already create amazingly diversified paintings with the above palette. But, for various reasons, artists tend to add a variety of other colors to their palette. One reason is that tube colors are, by and large, always brighter…
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On 6 Nov, 2004 With
Painting is an aesthetic representation of the imaginative mindset of a painter. This form of art exerted tremendous influence on the society since its inception several thousand years ago. Painters are like alchemists who can make formidable creations intermingling colors on a piece of canvas. It is through painting artists of all ages portray the conditions of the mainstream society, the various ethos, culture and traditions. A work of painting can best reveal the good and evil of the everyday life and urge the common people to be good in thought and action so that the society becomes beautiful and beneficial to the mankind. Originated as a creative pastime as cave depictions by our early ancestors, painting has undergone several…
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On 6 Nov, 2004 With
The simplest color wheel consists of a circle divided into six equal wedges. You color the top wedge, say, in yellow (the first primary color). Then going clockwise, you skip a wedge and color the next one in, say, blue (the second primary color). Finally, you skip another wedge and color the next one in red (the third primary color). The respective uncolored wedges will be filled in with the secondary color produced by the mixture of the two neighboring primary colors. None of the tube colors you can buy in the art stores are pure. For example, both Lemon Yellow and Cadmium Yellow obviously look yellow. However, if you mix these two yellows with another color, say, Cadmium Red…
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On 6 Aug, 2004 With
Oil colour, with its standard, lends well with the glazing techniques with a smooth polished finish. Though, there are a huge variety of texture effects that can be attained in oil painting using customary techniques like impasto, or just through trialing, this article will glance through some admired oil painting effects, and how they are able to be used in achieving texture.Impasto Technique: Prepare yourself with heaps of oil colour previous to embarking on an impasto oil painting voyage. Impasto technique is the process of applying huge quantities of paint with a brush or palette knife, generally with a very gestural brilliance. The effect is a three-dimensional facet to the surface. Frequently, definite mediums created for impasto painting are used…
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On 5 Jun, 2004 With
Oil painting is a method of drawing the pictures using various oil paints available. It comprises of wide range of procedures, so that excellent color painting can be obtained. Oil painting can be used either thickly or thinly in glazes, opaque or transparent. Unique techniques and tools are used to enhance good maritime paintings. Some of the tips offered to the artist who can make use for marine art. * Generally, marine paintings can be drawn on the palette, so that the color can be chosen for drawing the picture. It is suggested for the people to start the oil painting with the acrylic underpainting. Better start off with acrylic underpainting so that it takes less time to dry and…
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On 6 Apr, 2004 With
If you love art, you may wonder how to start building your own collection. Canvas oil paintings can be a wonderful addition to your home. But it is important to know what you are doing when you begin searching for paintings for sale. Where you start your search for paintings for sale you should think about why you are buying. If it is for personal enjoyment, your search will be made somewhat simpler than if you are looking for investment opportunities. Paintings for sale can be found in art galleries, at art shows and on websites. Websites can be an excellent source of canvas oil paintings and other pieces of art since you can see the work of several…
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