Monday, August 25, 2008

Techniques of Door Painting

Flowtrol is the easiest to use in doors so that it keeps your paint wet longer. Generally we can use a small roller to do the sections of the door and brush it out using long strokes. Make sure that you are overlapping, bringing your brush back into the area you just painted. Advantage is that it takes 1/3 the time of brushing alone and keeps the paint in a workable condition. Load up your roller with paint and we have to roll out the raised middle section in a few strokes. Take your brush, dip it in paint then brush what you just rolled, make sure that your brush angle matches the 45 degree angle of the corners then stroke out the corners. We have to start at the bottom, overlapping onto the vertical edges then you can get 6" up between the panels as well. Use the same techniques up to vertical, horizontal and top. It should take two or three min per section once you get good.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Advanced Traditional Chinese Paintings


Styles of traditional painting is now known in chinese as 'Guo hua', its meaning as national or native painting. In 20th century, western styles of paintings and art which became very popular in china. Two main techniques have used in chinese painting which are 'Meticulous' - Gong-bi referred as court-style painting and other one is 'Freehand' - Shui-mo, it referred as water colour or brush painting. 'mo' means ink and 'shui' means water, it will be used as chinese characters and style is reffered as 'xie y' or freehand style. Recently they have created traditional chinese paintings of lion and tigers were presented at bengal gallery in capital. Painters were in Wanggongzhuang village, middle of china has become first place with Perfect paintings of tigers, several of them became very famous even around the world. The eight day exhibition by 10 artists was inauguareted on this month, Dr Muhammad Yunus was inauguarated the show as chief guest, among others, were present on the occasion.