by Barbara on October 25, 2010
Flower painting has been a trendy form of art for quite some time and this is simply understandable. A flower painting lesson comes in handy in ensuring that the painting is done with a keen eye. The wide range of eye-catching flowers that come in many shapes and colors are quite inspiring for artists.
The dominant language of movement, shape and color that goes a long way in making flowers has coerced me to try preserving this great beauty in flower paintings. Pastel is my favorite working mode owing to its hue richness and immediacy. Pastel enables one to work fast enough while capturing the light and movement of a given flower.
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by Barbara on October 21, 2010
Snowy Mountain - Juan Alcantara: From fineartamerica.com
Whenever I begin a painting entailing a mountain, I wonder what is involved in how to paint a snow mountain, the focal point I want the mountain to take; if it will be the key object within the painting. The first thing to decide in painting a snow mountain is its position. Try to place the mountain on the pictures off center; either to your left or right. Do not do the painting on the canvas’ edge or the viewer’s eyes will end up “off the canvas”
The next step is mixing the color of the base. Obtain a good pallet knife and proceed to mix a blue base color using some alizoran crimson. In case the mountain will be deep into the distance some lightening using color grey [click to continue…]
by Barbara on October 17, 2010
Artists who have made painting as their career never fail to learn one stroke painting as a necessary style in painting. It is an innovative way of decorative painting created by Donna Dewberry which refers to blending, highlighting and shading just in one stroke. It is performed by an artist by loading the brush with a few colors to make a 3-dimension effect in each stroke.
This method is good for decorative crafts like painting plates and mailboxes. If you combine this technique with other painting methods, you will be delighted to see beautiful highlights for easel and mural work. One important thing that you should remember in doing this technique is how to have a good amount of [click to continue…]
by Barbara on April 8, 2010
Now that you have completed your masterpiece which has subsequently been bought, the next thing would be to consider how to ship a painting. Worthwhile paintings require shipping to be done by experts who deal with moving of art works. Although most artwork, however worthwhile, does not necessarily need special shipping procedures. Shipping your piece of artwork could be a stressful activity regardless of how well the work is packaged. The tips mentioned below will most likely do away with some of the strain of this procedure.
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by Barbara on April 6, 2010
Artists can learn stretching canvas painting on their own or decide to buy canvas that is already stretched.
The benefit of purchasing mounted and pre-stretched canvas is that it will save on time. However, the disadvantages include settling for standardized sizes, they are [click to continue…]