The World Painting

Whiteley picture sells for $1.1 million

2009-09-24T02:20:00.000-07:00

A Brett Whiteley painting creep over the million-dollar mark at auction last night to become the first artwork to be sold for seven figures in Australia this year.

The late painter's large The Sunrise, Japanese: Good Morning! Just made the price to estimate of $1.1 million to $1.4 million set by auctioneer Menzies Art Brands and went to an undisclosed phone bidder for a hammer price of $1.1 million after moderate bidding at the Kensington auction.

There was keen interest in the sale amid signs that confidence has begun returning to a subdued art market that has had a distinct require of top-end works on offer this year.

The Sunrise, Japanese, painted in 1988, was part of a collection of paintings being sold by the millionaire Tasmanian mathematician and art collector David Walsh. It was finally bought for $764,500 (including buyer's premium) in September 2004.

Husain's art fetched $582,500 at Sotheby's

2009-09-21T05:12:00.000-07:00

The highest price was achieved by V S Gaitonde's untitled, who was chased by four clients and sold to a telephone bidder for US $602,500.

The second highest price went to Tyeb Mehta for "And behind me Desolation," which goes for US $350,000 followed by Husain's painting.

"The sale, which exceed the pre-sale estimate and was 90.9 per cent sold by value, confirms the growing confidence in the Indian market. We saw international bidding and buying, mainly from private collectors, with a invigorated presence from our trade clients," said Zara Porter-Hill, Head of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at Sotheby.

The Art Auction House sold 70 per cent of their plenty at the Asian sale. Additionally, in all three of their 2009 sales over 50 per cent of the plenty sold reached prices above the high pre-sale estimate.

The buyers were mostly Indian and US private clients and one European.

The rising paintings of Roman Empire

2009-09-15T21:43:00.000-07:00

The expansion of the Roman Empire two millennia ago fuel a boom in culture and art, explored in an upcoming exhibition here spotlighting painting from the past.

This period - from the empire's birth, with the arrival of Julius Caesar in 46 BC, through its growth into a vast colonial power - was a time of vigorous cultural development that laid the foundational groundwork for future generations of Western artists. Landscapes, still life’s, portraits, myth and religion are all depict in the paintings, which come in a variety of forms, from large-scale frescos to miniature paintings on wood, to stonework decorative patterns and complete friezes.

The paintings almost all come from prestigious institutions, including the British Museum in London, the Vatican Museum and the Louvre in Paris, where, say organizers, they are all too often overlooked among a wealth of other Ancient Roman treasures. This exhibition aims to restore appreciation for a few of these magnificent pieces, not only as generic representations of Ancient Roman art, but also as beautiful paintings in their own right.

Bangalore artist create paintings with charcoal and thread in minutes

2009-09-07T04:05:00.000-07:00

Anjula Prem Kumar of Bangalore is no common artist. She creates wonderful and eye-catching paintings from thread and charcoal on canvas and with her fingers on sprinkled sand, within minutes.

Give her music of her choice and a little string of thread and charcoal, and Anjula is ready with a painting in three to four minutes.

The thread and charcoal, she says, help her speed up her work and also maintain the viewer’s interest especially during painting demonstrations.

"I thought when you want to complete a picture, if you prolong it for a long time people lose interest when they are seeing it. So I thought I could use thread which is still faster, that is the only reason I started with the thread, and that gives me a really good finish and I enjoy doing it with thread," said Anjula.

A new hidden layer establish on an old painting

2009-09-04T02:00:00.000-07:00

A Brazilian art restorer has exposed a new layer hidden in a centuries-old painting of the Greek God of fertility Priapus, by French artist Nicolas Poussin - the deity's erect penis.
"They hid the phallus of Priapus. It's what we call adjustment for modesty, and it's not uncommon," said Regina Pinto Moreira, quoted in Tuesday's version of the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper. She suspects the cover-up was completed in conservative Catholic Spain in the 18th century.

Moreira, who worked as a master art restorer at the Louvre in Paris for some 30 years, spent eight months alongside two French experts restore Poussin's large 1634-1638 painting "Hymenaios Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus."

Removing layers of dust, dirt and paint specks that accumulated over more than three centuries cost 150,000 euros (213,000 dollars). The artwork will be put on exhibit at Sao Paulo's grand Museo de Art (MASP) on September 8.

Giant Tangka paintings on display

2009-09-02T22:15:00.000-07:00

Tangka painting has a long history in the Tibet Autonomous Region; first appear about 13-hundred years ago. Today, the ancient artistic traditions still fascinate people from home and abroad. This week in Beijing, a Tangka painting of extraordinary size was unveiled.

At the exhibition entitled the Ethnic Artistic Treasures of the Chinese Nation, a giant tangka painting measures 13-by-1.3-meters is astounding visitors. The work is an description of the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha, the founder of the Buddhist religion. In all, the painting contains a whole of 34 stories and more than two-thousand characters.

Tangka, or Tibetan Buddhist story painting, is an attractive element of the Tibet culture. Tangka paintings are formed on rolls of silk or satin and depict Tibetan anecdotes or folk customs and images of the Buddha. It's an art handed down over a thousand years, and is listed as a division of China's Cultural Heritage. It features strict composition and detailed depiction. Besides Buddhist themes, Tangka paintings also a customs, feature history, and legendary figures of Tibet.

Painting the city walls with colourful and attractive themes

2009-08-27T23:38:00.000-07:00

Film posters and ugly graffiti bother you? It is all about to change as city roads will undergo a makeover with vibrant colors and themes. The BBMP’s initiative to add color and make the walls in the city look more lively and attractive has just begun.

Individuals and companies have already come forward to help the Palike build this initiative a success.

After initiate the project of painting the city walls with colourful themes, ideas and educative material, the Palike is now approaching five-star hotels and IT companies to come forward and continue this spree.

The BBMP has earmarked the idea of painting city walls with colourful motifs and designs on selected roads and locality. Pictures of murals, animals, folk art and designs inspired from the nature would be painted on these walls.

According to BBMP sources, the first phase of this project will different artists from the city and opportunity to make the roadside walls their canvas.

Plein air paintings in idaho

2009-08-26T01:32:00.000-07:00

Plein-air painting, which is painting in the open air, is a admired activity in Idaho because the surroundings offered by the state's beautiful topography lend themselves to be captured by artists. For the sixth year, the Plein Air Painters of Idaho will flock to south of Stanley, Redfish Lake, for the Redfish Plein Air Paint-Out on Tuesday, Aug. 31, through Friday, Sept. 4. A reception and show will be held at Redfish Lake cottage on Thursday, Sept. 3, and will feature works for sale.
Redfish Lake as well as the surrounding Stanley Basin, Sawtooth Valley and Salmon River, suggest spectacular mountain scenery that painters will capture throughout the week.

Ketchum artist Deanna Shrell is a Redfish Plein Air Paint-Out regular and part of the Plein Air Painters of Idaho. She was recognized for "Best Landscape" in the sixth annual Art Museum of Eastern Idaho displays "Idaho Paints Idaho" earlier this year.

Realism art in painting

2009-08-25T01:32:00.000-07:00

Realist art adopts the approach of portraying subjects in as straightforward manner as possible, without idealizing them and without follow the rules of formal theory. Realism first appeared in art of the 18th century, however, the great Realist era was the mid-19th century, as artists becomes disillusioned with the Salon system and the influence of the Academies.

What kind of differences are there between the realistic and the classical painting?

1) Figuratively, the classical image is music based on notation; the realistic Painting is music without notation knowledge.

2) Technique. Everything in the classical Painting is finishing stage by stage in accordance with laws which were not invented by the author. The realistic Painting is created in one layer, "alla prima." There can be several layers but only because the author does not have time to complete the picture "in the wet".

3) Plot. In the classical Painting the plot is constructing in accordance with the classical composition laws. The realistic Painting school does borrow something from the classical school but there is no composition law as such: there are as many laws as there are in realistic artists.

Ancient Egyptian painting techniques

2009-08-24T03:50:00.001-07:00

Ancient Egyptian paintings survive due to the tremendously dry climate. The ancient Egyptians created paintings to make the afterlife of the deceased a enjoyable place. As a result, beautiful paintings were created. The themes included journey through the afterworld or their defensive deities introducing the deceased to the gods of the underworld. Some examples of such paintings are paintings of warriors and Osiris. Some tomb paintings explain activities that the deceased were involved in when they were alive and wished to carry on doing for eternity.

Egyptian paintings are painted in such a technique to show a profile view and a side view of the animal or person. For example, the painting to the accurate shows the head from a profile view and the body from a frontal view. Their main colors were red, black, blue, gold, and green.

Finger painting way into world record

2009-08-20T01:44:00.000-07:00

Thousands of children are probable to descend on Belfast Zoo on Thursday, all eager to get their hands dirty.

Hope that they will be able to paint their way into the Guinness Book of World Records with the world's largest finger painting.

To succeed their canvas has to be bigger than the present record holder, a 2,000 square metre painting made in Austria in 2007.

The record attempt is being staged by NICMA - the Childminding Association as one part of its 25th anniversary celebrations.

Two thousand canvasses will be painted then sewn jointly. Depicting a house, NICMA hope it will symbolize the home-based care offered by childminders.

Michael Jackson portrait fetched $1 million

2009-08-19T02:39:00.000-07:00

A Michael Jackson portrait by Andy Warhol fetched more than $1 million at an East Hampton in New York gallery, according to one of the gallery’s owners.

Vered Gallery sold the 1984 painting to a “speculator,” said Janet Lehr and a gallery partner. She declined to recognize the buyer, specify how much he paid or whom he bought it from.

On May 13, the similar painting sold for $278,500 at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.

Lehr said she expects the man who bought it from the gallery to dispatch it back to the gallery to resell.

Results of light paintings

2009-08-18T02:10:00.000-07:00

Light painting by moving the camera is also called camera painting, is the antithesis of traditional photography. At night, or in a dark room, the camera could be taken off the tripod and used like a paintbrush. An example is using the night sky as the canvas, the camera as the brush and cityscapes (among other light sources) as the palette. Putting energy into moving the camera by stroking lights, creating patterns and laying down backgrounds can create abstract artistic images. Also known as "Camera Toss."

Making a light painting does not necessarily need to be done in a dark room or at night. Sometimes using artificial light, like LEDs and mobile phones, or through the limited sunlight beaming in a curtained room makes a shadowing effect. Using a mirror creates a double image, which adds up to a more inspired result.

Vermeer’s painting in New York

2009-08-17T03:54:00.000-07:00

The painting will be exposed as part of an exhibition on the 17th-century Dutch artist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art next month.

The Milkmaid, dating from 1658, shows a milkmaid in a blue and yellow color dress pouring milk from a jug into a bowl.

The painting is being loaned to the New York gallery on next month by Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. It was final seen in the US at the 1939 World's Fair, in New York.

Five other works by Vermeer from the galleries own collection will also go on display, as well as works by other Dutch painters.

Along with Rembrandt and Frans Hals, Vermeer is considering as one of the greatest Dutch artists, however only 36 of his paintings survive today. The exhibition opens on September 10 and runs until November 29.

Matte painting

2009-08-14T03:51:00.000-07:00

A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to make the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive to build or visit. Previously, matte painters and film technicians have used various techniques to combine a matte-painted image with live-action footage. At its best, depending on the skill levels of the artists and technicians, the effects is “seamless” and create environments that would otherwise be impossible to film.

Traditional matte paintings were still in utilize, but more frequently in conjunction with digital compositing. Paint has now been superseded by digital images formed using photo references, 3-D models, and drawing tablets. Matte painters combine their digitally matte painted textures within computer-generated 3-D environments, allowing for 3-D camera movement. Speedier computer processing times continue to modify and expand matte painting technologies and techniques.

Paintings renew power

2009-08-13T00:31:00.000-07:00

Hyderabad:A painting and essay writing competition for schoolchildren was held at the Jawahar Bal Bhavan in Public Gardens on august 11th to create awareness among them about renewable energy sources.

More than 300 students from 100 schools in the city participated in the competition organized together by the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Non-Conventional Energy Development Corporation of AP (NEDCAP) and Confederation of Voluntary Associations (COVA).

The winners will be awarded prizes by Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy on August 20, the birthday of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which is celebrated each year as ‘Renewable Energy Day’.

Mona Lisa smile on after Russian teacup attack

2009-08-12T01:51:00.000-07:00

An "unhinged" Russian woman threw a teacup at the world's most famous painting, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," but it emerges unscathed due to its bullet-proof glass cover, the Louvre museum said on Tuesday.

"The young women take a cup out of her bag and throw it over the heads of other people who were looking at the painting. The cup cracked on the bullet-proof glass which was a little bit scratched," a spokesman said.

The Louvre, the biggest art museum in the world, has thousands of paintings, but most of the millions of guests a year make a bee-line for the Mona Lisa, known in France as La Joconde.
The 500-year-old painting was stolen in 1911 from the Louvre but was returned two years later after an Italian was under arrest for its theft.

It was doused with acid by a vandal in 1956 and later the same year a Bolivian injured it again by throwing a rock at it.

StraightForward paintings of ordinary American peoples

2009-08-11T02:46:00.000-07:00

'Painting the People," an exhibition of American art created mainly in the first half of the 20th century, could eagerly be titled "Painting for People." It's a show that generate good feelings about art, about humanity, and even, to a degree, about American culture.

These 44 paintings, on view at the James A. Michener Art Museum, address for antimodernism. They're nativist not only in subject matter, in the way they portray ordinary peoples, but also in their reliance on the belief that, after the hugely influential Armory show in 1913, some American artists rejected Europe as a basis of inspiration.

"Painting the People" is, for the most part, narrative, realist, and uncomplicated. The images that don't need to be deconstructed or puzzled out. They're paintings "for people" in the sense that specialized knowledge or art experience isn't necessary to enjoy them.

Michael Jackson painting, last sold for $2.1 million in 1990

2009-08-04T06:32:00.000-07:00

The owner of a long-hidden painting of Michael Jackson, reputed to be the only portrait he ever posed for, say they are trying to sell it amid the renewed interest after his death. The painting, last sold in 1990 for $2.1 million, was brought out of storage at New Jersey warehouse recently and put on exhibit in a Harlem car showroom.

The 50-by-40-inch painting, called “The Book,” was done in 1990 by an Australian artist, Brett-Livingstone Strong, who was a good friend of Mr. Jackson and shared his taste for slightly fantastical style of life and dress.

The painting is owned by two toy inventors, Marty Abrams and John Gentilly, who established the painting in 1992 from a Japanese businessman who had bought it to make good on a debt he owed the inventors.

Currently, the painting is being displayed at the Dancy-Power Automotive at Lenox Avenue and West 129th in Harlem, selected in part because it is owned by a friend of Mr. Abrams and also because it is near the Apollo Theater, where the Jackson 5 won an amateur night competition in 1967.

Chinese prehistoric traditional painting

2009-07-31T02:04:00.000-07:00

Traditional Chinese painting dates back to the Neolithic period about 6,000 years ago. The excavated colored pottery with painted human faces, fish, deer and frogs indicates that the Chinese began painting as far back as the Neolithic period. Over the centuries, the growth of Chinese painting unavoidably reflected the change of time and social conditions.

In its earliest stage, Chinese prehistoric paintings were closely associated to other primitive crafts, such as pottery, bronzeware, carved jade and lacquer.

Following the introduction of Buddhism to China during the first century from India, and the carvings on grottoes and temple building that ensue, the art of painting religious murals slowly gained prominence.

China plunged into a situation of divided states from the third to the sixth century, where incessant wars and succession of dynasties sharpened the thinking of Chinese artists which, in turn, promoted the development of art. Grotto murals, stone carvings, wall murals in tomb chambers, brick carvings and lacquer paintings flourished in a period deemed very important to the development of traditional Chinese painting.

Paint Off in Mill Valley draws excited crowd

2009-07-28T23:04:00.000-07:00

Painter Deanne Kraus is applying paint to her canvas which has been positioned on--of all things-- the ground.

It is quite windy as we stand in the middle of the Book Depot plaza on Saturday afternoon, surrounded by artists, easels and onlookers. Thirty-five artists are all challenging in the 19th annual Mill Valley Art Commission Paint Off.

The Paint Off pits artist against artist, as they quickly create their masterpiece in the allotted four-hour time limit. The artists just set up their easel at 10:30 a.m., and work in their favorite standard--oil, acrylic, pastel or watercolor--to capture the downtown scene until 2:30 p.m. when time is called.

After the artists are asked to put down their brushes, the public gets to stroll around and mark their "People's Choice" for the most excellent painting. Then, the artists choose their favorites for "Artists Choice" for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. There is also the "Jack Beck Choice", given by the guy--Jack Beck--who formed the Paint off competition in 1990.

Iran exhibit Zarshenas paintings in Amol

2009-07-28T04:05:00.000-07:00

Iran's northern city of Amol has mounted an exhibition of artistic creation by the veteran Iranian painter Fariborz Zarshenas.

The weeklong event display 40 paintings created by Zarshenas during his 40-year artistic career.

“The paintings are figurative, practical and abstract representations of natural scenes and parental figures,” Fariborz Zarshenas told Mehr News Agency.

Known as one of the most renowned painters of Iran and the northern Mazandaran Province, Zarshenas has also planned the first exhibition of street painting for children and young adults in Amol.

Chennai: Wider canvas for wall paintings plan

2009-07-27T02:20:00.000-07:00

Following an encouraging good response from residents to wall paintings on a small stretch of Anna Salai at Nandanam, as part of its city beautification plan, the Chennai Corporation has proposed to extend the project to the other parts of the city. The colorful paintings depict the State’s rich cultural heritage.

The civic body planned to replicate the paintings in subways and flyovers, once the ban on wall posters and graffiti in subways and flyovers comes into effect on August 1.

A senior Corporation official of the Saidapet zone said that they had been receiving good response from the public. The perimeter of the golf course at Nandanam has given a wider canvas to showcase the rich heritage of the State.

The variety of images there included a painting of the golf sport, which was done on request. To add color, the civic body has installed figurines showcasing the State’s martial and folk arts in eight places in the city, including Sterling Road, Gemini Flyover, Valluvar Kottam and near Connemara Library.

Painting exhibition to marks Mother Teresa's 100th year

2009-07-24T01:56:00.000-07:00

A painting exhibition to mark 100 years of Mother Teresa was opened by Archbishop Bernard Moras in Bangalore, India.

Mother Teresa, born on 27 August in the year 1910. In 1979, she was award the Nobel Prize for Peace.

The exhibition was organized by Renaissance Gallery and will showcase the art of acclaimed Indian painter Ritu Singh. The event began on July 21 and will end on July 25.

Ritu Singh is said to be an ardent admirer of Mother Teresa and has also earlier received an invitation by the Vatican to attend the beatification ceremony of the humanitarian icon.

Opening the exhibition, Archbishop Moras hailed the paintings and also expressed appreciation to Ritu Singh for communicates her love for Mother Teresa through her God-given talent.

While many of the paintings have appeared on BBC, some even were seen in the document films on Mother Teresa aired at Cannes.

Enjoy with healthy painting

2009-07-23T01:42:00.000-07:00

Today, we can enjoy all the benefits of updating the interior paint of our houses without the need to endure the onslaught of toxic petrochemicals. No-VOC paints are each bit as colorful, durable and easy to use as their VOC-filled counterparts. Nearly every paint manufacturer makes its own line of no- and/or low-VOC paints from which to prefer. In almost each and every case, the line has any color imaginable and, if the right product is chosen, the paint can be applied in two coats or fewer.

Today, there are also wide selections of natural-based paints obtainable. These paints are made from a large variety of raw, natural ingredients such as milk, soybeans, citrus peels, corn, beeswax and clay. These paints naturally have few or no VOCs, but often require more experience to apply effectively.

For those who have great chemical sensitivities it may be necessary to test several different brands or types of no-VOC paints because each manufacturer uses different binders, solvents and additives to achieve a top quality no-VOC paint. Because of these variations, one may react more favorably with one brand or type verses another depending on the exact sensitivity. It is sensible for you to elicit the assistance of a trained professional who is very familiar with several different lines and types of paint and who has the skill and expertise to choose and apply the paints properly.

Sequence of madonnas in Raphael paintings

2009-07-22T00:46:00.000-07:00

Raphael painted a succession of Madonnas that took the Renaissance world by storm. It is believed their composition was influenced by the workings of Leonardo da Vinci, whom he met when he moved to Florence. Let’s take a look at the little Cowper Madonna its soft and gentle contours and perfection of balance. It has frequently been noted to resemble some of Leonardo’s paintings of the subject.

Madonna of the Chair was painted more than ten years later, but also reflects the sweetness and harmony that are identified with Raphael’s style, although we can definitely see delicate changes in the facial composition. This exacting work is considered the most popular of all Raphael’s Madonnas and was probably painted for Pope Leo X, or a member of the powerful Medici family.

Creativity, Experience makes painting beautiful

2009-07-20T03:43:00.000-07:00

Creativity, the energy of life, flows through all of us, but we learn to label it something special, unusual, requiring rarified glorified skills, harnessed to precise rules and regulations. We begin to believe that creativity is for those with talent; its goal, to produce something perfects enough to be called “art.” We basically define the term talent by an ordinary person’s inability to have it. Everyone has a longing to create. That desire is itself the essence of creativity.

The painting of process can be your vehicle for exploration. Through painting, you can give yourself more experience with this forgotten passion. When you put yourself in front of a piece of blank paper, you can express your willingness to explore. Can you imagine painting something risky - a strong color, a body, an image you dislike? The risk might shake you up, but its part of an exhilarating ride. Soon, the ride becomes more important than the end. The adventure is so exciting that you want to keep exploring, taking risks, again and again.

Process painting is a easy and simple for direct way to experience your unique creative voice. The satisfaction you can find in connecting with that voice will keep you returning to the process again and again, to continue your own creative journey.

Florentine painting in 15th century

2009-07-17T02:21:00.000-07:00

In Florentine male portraits painted during the approximate period 1440-1490, the man generally appears in three quarter view, strong, virile, taking up nearly the entire canvas space.

Now, looking at female portraits from the same position and time period, today's viewer will note first of all that the woman is in profile. Her gazes, instead of turned outward toward the world, and is averted. Her facial look is docile and simplistic. There is no emotion or feeling in the still quiet face.

Interestingly, this trend has received very few attentions by art historians. Basically, Florentine female portraiture during 1440-1490 was little more than an idealization of the female condition, as determined solely by the masculine contingent of the day.

Development trends of environmental paint

2009-07-16T00:23:00.000-07:00

With growing concerns over health and environmental protection, market demand for environmental paint is on the increase. The so-called "green paint" refers to energy saving, low conservative materials such as water-based paint, high solid content paint, powder paint and radiation curable paint and so on. Certain kinds of paint are picking up to develop into the preferable coasting material for a variety of products like Solid solvent-borne paint, Water-based paint, Dust paint, Liquid solvent-free paint.

- Solid solvent-borne paint: High-solids solvent is in order to meet the increasingly stringent environmental protection necessities.

- Water-based paint: The vast popular of water is different from the characteristics of organic solvents in its non-toxic odorless and non-flammable form.

- Dust paint: Paint dust is a more superior paint. Paint dust theory is absolute zero VOC paint, and with their unique advantages, in the future, dust coating paint may become one of the most significant development directions.

- Liquid solvent-free paint: There are two kinds of organic solvent-free liquid paint, such as the energy beam curing type.

Materials used for water color paintings

2009-07-14T03:03:00.001-07:00

Water color painting is the medium in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in water soluble vehicles.

Materials:

• colorant, normally pigment (an insoluble inorganic compound or metal oxide crystal, or an organic dye fused to an insoluble metal oxide crystal);

• binder, the material that holds the pigment in suspension and fixes the pigment to the painting surface;

• additives, substances that change the viscosity, hiding, durability or color of the pigment and vehicle mixture; and

• Solvent, the substance used to thin or dilute the paint for application and that evaporate when the paint hardens or dries.

The traditional and most ordinary support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, wood, fabric, and canvas. A brush consists of three types: the tuft, the ferrule and the handle. A watercolor paper comes in three basic finishes: hot pressed, cold press, and rough.

Watercolor artist Fran Fink's show runs through July

2009-07-13T06:01:00.000-07:00

Fran Fink, living in Michigan. She started painting seriously when she was 30 years old. When she moved to Florida 11 years ago, however, she decided to move to watercolors.

Fink, who has been painting for more than 40 years, has a one-woman explain at the Englewood Art Center's Mitchell Gallery. The show runs through the end of this month.

Fink grew up in Saginaw and later she moved to Flint. She began taking art classes at the Flint Institute of Art, where she was learned some of the basic techniques of working in oils. For example, she is now starting to include some of the fine brush strokes that once characterized her oil paintings into her watercolors.

Village art league celebrates 20th anniversary with summer painting festival

2009-07-10T00:24:00.000-07:00

Twenty years ago, The Villages Art League started out in the arts and craft room at Paradise Recreation Center with a small number of people. Now, the art leagues meet Mondays at Saddlebrook Recreation Center, Thursdays at Mulberry Grove Recreation Center, and Saturdays at Paradise Recreation Center.

The art league soon decided it required to display the works of its artists, so the group held an event at La Hacienda Center. Finally, the artists took over all of the rooms in the building, which led to the Artists’ Showcase, which is held the Saturday after Thanksgiving in the banquet rooms at Savannah Center.

Then, three years ago, the idea of adding an art show during the summer came up. Festivalgoer’s can enter to succeed several door prizes, and they can take part in a few chance drawings. Several artists have donated their works to be given away as prizes, including international artists Tom Jones and Yolanda Mayhall.

Michael Jackson Painting has to Be Auctioned

2009-07-08T22:27:00.000-07:00

With the pass of time, things come to an end, but it's the remembrance that remains; indeed hard to fade away. With the demise of the king of pop, Michael Jackson, millions should have shed their tears. And now, his ardent fans, are trying their most excellent to preserve every kind of memorabilia that the artist had.

The latest to this is the Michael Jackson's painting formed by King of Pop Art Andy Warhol in 1984. The painting has been below the hammer at the Vered Gallery of East Hampton. The picture depicts a smiling King of Pop in his red military uniform from his hit album 'Thriller'.

Ruth Vered, who owns the gallery, said that the 30-by-26-inch, synthetic polymer painting on canvas could be expected to fetch millions of dollars at the auction, which ends on July 12.

Christie’s Auction Sells $32.7 Million of Art as marketplace shrink

2009-07-08T01:56:00.000-07:00

A London auction ended with the sale of 20.3 million pounds ($32.7 million) of art last night as the market for traditional paintings continuous to shrink.

Christie’s International’s first evening auction of its new category of Old Masters & 19th Century Art open a week of tests of demand. Today, its rival Sotheby’s starts selling 200 artworks belongs to Barbara Piasecka Johnson, that may make at least 5.7 million pounds.

The two most extremely valued paintings in the auction were both expected to fetch between 2 million pounds and 3 million pounds. Both sold for below-estimate hammer prices of 1.9 million pounds, equate to 2.2 million pounds with fees.

As ever, 17th century Dutch paintings that were new to the market and in unrestored condition were in demand.

Estimated at 300,000 pounds to 500,000 pounds, the painting had lain undamaged in a European private collection for more than 60 years.

Natural Painting stolen in Florida, recovered in New Hampshire

2009-07-07T03:51:00.001-07:00

Even though the painting was worth up to $20,000 by a few estimates, John McCulloch was offering the one-of-a-kind Douglas Van Howd work for $1,000 on the Web site Craigslist, police said.

Police learned that the painting, "Nuyakuk Falls Rainbow" by wildlife artist Douglas Van Howd, was taken from a house in Lauderdale by the Sea, Fla. They received a tip that the personality with the painting was living Salem.

Investigators said a detective posed as an art buyer and negotiated a price with John McCulloch, 25, who was finally taken into custody.

Announcing street painting winners

2009-07-02T02:49:00.000-07:00

TEMECULA - Winners of the ninth annual Temecula Street Painting festival and the second annual Ralph Love Plein Air Art Festival, held in Old Town last weekend, has been announced.

In the street painting competition, Best of Show honors went to Jesus Gutierrez of Murrieta for his "Aztec" painting. Gutierrez wins same honor in 2006. He has received a $500 prize and will be invited back to the 2010 festival as the featured artist.

The 2009 People's Choice Award went to Lee Rupp of Wildomar for his "Fly Girl," a painting of a pin-up girl.

Taking the Best of Show/Purchase Award in the plain air festival was Temecula artist Shawn McKelvey for his work "Old & New." Artists in this contest painted scenes of Old Town Temecula.

Painting award winners confirm promise, surprise

2009-07-01T03:36:00.000-07:00

An exhibit of the work of the eight finalists in the annual Bethesda Painting Awards competition is on display at the Fraser Gallery in Bethesda through July 4. The winners of the liberal awards, funded by the Trawick Foundation, were announced at the opening earlier this month.

As in the past, the competition was open to artists of all levels from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Of the record 240-plus submissions received, 38 were selected as semi-finalists. The jurors included John Winslow, painter and Catholic University emeritus professor, whose proclivities are fairly evident in the assortment of finalists. The extra two jurors, also painting professors, were Patrice Kehoe, University of Maryland, and Ruth Bolduan, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Perhaps most interesting about the consequences of the judging is the relative homogeneity of the selections, with one glaring exception. On one hand is a group of abstract works, all of them connecting linear patterning and layering of forms. The rest are realists, apart from for the top prize winner, Camilo Sanin, who works in a style that might be called Neo-Color Field. Sanin's striped paintings are evocative of the work of 1960s Washington Color Field painters Gene Davis and Howard Mehring, but on a much smaller scale.

Landscape painting auctioned in Beijing for record $12.3 mln in china

2009-06-29T03:11:00.000-07:00

BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) - A record auction price of 84 million yuan (about 12.3 million U.S. dollars) was achieved for a unique Chinese painting in Beijing.

The landscape painting by Zhu Da, also known as Bada Shanren (1626-1705), sells to a private buyer at the Council Auction held on Friday.

The previous record was put in 2007 when The Red Cliff Handscroll by the Ming Dynasty painter Qiu Ying (1494-1552) was sold for 79.52 million yuan.

A famous freehand brushwork painter and calligrapher, Zhu Da was born into the majestic family of the dynasty. He retires to the mountains when the dynasty fell in 1644.

His early paintings included albums of flowers and rocks, accompanied by poems and signed under a range of obscure names. Later he used to paint birds and fish to signal distress, painting lotuses with broken stems, and ink landscapes.

M.F.Husain painting sells for Rs 3.1 cr at Christie's

2009-06-26T22:22:00.000-07:00

London (PTI): A 1960 painting by M F Husain fetched a whopping Rs 3.1 crore at Christie's South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art sale here which saw 76 lots of famous artists going under the hammer for Rs 18.98 crore.

Pakistani artist Rashid Rana's "Red Carpet" has got the second highest price of Rs 1.3 crore at the auction which took place on June 10, the organisers said. Ram Kumar's "Untitled (Benares)" paint sold for Rs 1.04 crore.

The "Ragamala Series", oil work on canvas, features visual interpretation of Indian musical modes. The series capture Husain's continuous fascination with 'rasa' or aesthetic rapture.
The inter-disciplinary nature of music, dance, sculpture, painting and film provided enormous inspiration to M.F.Husain at that time (1950s and 60s) and his "Ragamala Series" embodies the masterful usage of his most recognisable pictorial elements.

Husain's other works "The Preacher at Mecca" fetched 250, 121pounds (Rs 9.5 million) and "Untitled (Horses)" Rs 5.7 million.

Franz Marc painting fetched 6.2 million dollars

2009-06-24T02:53:00.000-07:00

London - The oil paintings Springende Pferde by German expressionist artist Franz Marc fetched 6.2 million dollars At Christie's auction house Tuesday. The price exceeded the lowest estimation of 4.9 million dollars and grazed just under the maximum estimate of 6.5 million dollars.

Marc is one of the main important painters of the 20th century and was a co-founder of Munich's 'Blaue Reiter' artist circle that included Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke. His painting of the three leap horses was made in 1910. He was draft into the German army after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was killed in 1916 during the Battle of Verdun.

Also sold at the auction was Claude Monet's Au Parc Monceau from 1878, for 10.4 million dollars - well beyond the maximum hope of 7.4 million dollars.

Man's duck paintings won second place in competition

2009-06-22T03:15:00.000-07:00

Dan Speidel, 25, of Elyria Township, he likes to paint and hunt. By combine his two avocations, he has won second place in the Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp Design Competition sponsored by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Speidel's 16-inch-by-21-inch acrylic paintings of two bufflehead ducks in flight over Lake Erie show the Lorain Lighthouse in the background. Tim Daniel, public information officer for ODNR, said the judges praised the particulars of Lake Erie, the positions of the birds and the way they were portrayed in Speidel's painting. The first-place honor in the competition is the use of the winning artwork on the $15 waterfowl hunting stamp issued just before hunting season begins in September, Daniel said. Speidel's entry was one of 24 paintings entered by artists from 12 states, Daniel said. First place wins by Jeffrey Hoff, a North Dakota resident whose painting shows two ruddy ducks in the water.

This is the third time Speidel has enter the Ohio Wetlands habitat Stamp Design Competition, and the second place award is the highest he has earned.

Three Paintings peak the Million Dollar Mark at Heffel's $11.3 Million Spring Auction

2009-06-19T03:02:00.000-07:00

Heffel Fine Art Auction House set a new record sale cost tonight when a rare Emily Carr painting sold for $2,164,500 in the second session of Heffel’s Live Spring Auction. Wind in the Treetops, 36-1/2 x 21-1/4 inch oil on canvas, circa 1936-1939, is from the majority sought-after period in Carr’s career – the mature period of the 1930s. Heffel Fine Art Auction House has already sold two Carr paintings for more than $1-million and is the only auction house to reach that price point for her works. This ranks as the fourth main priced painting in Canadian history.

Tonight’s sale result of $11.3-million was well past the $6 - $9-million presale calculate for Heffel’s two sessions. The Canadian Post-War & Contemporary Art, which commenced at 4 p.m. PST, had sales totaling $4.7-million. The second session of Fine Canadian Art began at 7 p.m. PST and had a sales entire of $6.6-million. Both sessions were held before a crowd of 300 people at Vancouver’s new Convention Centre overlooking Coal Harbor.

Mecca painting won young artist $40,000

2009-06-17T02:20:00.000-07:00

A 26-year-old Victorian artist has been taken out a $40,000 national prize for his artwork depicting thousands of bowing Muslims at the annual Mecca pilgrimage.

Jackson Slattery's work, titled Our Plastic Everything Is Broken, beat more than 200 entries won the Metro Art Gallery Award. The award is the expensive prize for Australian painters under 35.

Slattery says he was enthused by a magazine image of pilgrims facing Mecca in prayer. A $10,000 people's selection prize was awarded to 30-year-old Victoria Reichelt from Brisbane for her self portrait - A Stack of Books Crowded in a Bookshelf.

Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett, who made the announcement today, welcomed the judge’s decisions.

Slattery also won the people's selection prize in 2008.

White Paintings 2007-09 at Sara Nightingale Gallery, Shelter Island NY June 20-July 9, 2009 - Eric Dever

2009-06-15T04:46:00.000-07:00

Announce a exhibition of 23 new paintings by Eric Dever, in Sara Nightingale's new gallery space reopened in May 2009.

Painting itself is the subject of Eric Dever's current project, spanning two years and 94 paintings. In his investigation of titanium and zinc white oil paint on canvas, burlap, and linen, the exclusive use of white has more to do with a focus on paint properties and supports and is less about color. This is a progression from Dever's earlier color based work before exhibited by Sara Nightingale Gallery in 2005.

Each piece is constructing with one or two brushes or knives. Supports are exposed as the negative space between multiple strokes or through the paint itself. Dever was introduced to Robert Ryman's monochrome painting as an NYU graduate student of Marcia Hafif; both were powerful artists of the Radical Painting Group formed in the late 70's.

Whether applied in stacked or alternating strokes, concentric circles, or randomly placed marks with second tries and adjustments, qualities related with current 'Provisional Painting' (Raphael Rubenstein AiA May'09), these paintings are part of a continuum. They are active and nonchalant.

China's top political advisor visits demonstrate of Chinese painting master's works

2009-06-09T23:45:00.000-07:00

China's top political consultant Jia Qinglin visited a show of paintings by Li Keran (1907-1989), one of the best-known Chinese artists.

Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and also a part of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, was accompanied by Politburo affiliate and Beijing's Party chief Liu Qi and CPPCC National Committee's secretary-general Qian Yunlu.

All the works on display at the exhibition, in the Beijing Fine Art Academy, are aid from Li's family members including his widow Zou Peizhu.

The exhibits contain 108 Chinese paintings and 13 water and color paintings by the artist. And these are only part of the family's contributions to the Municipal Government of Beijing.

Li, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, east China, began studying the traditional Chinese paintings at 13. He is also known as a great master in painting mountains and water.

The magic of kishangarh painting and its inspiration

2009-06-08T22:06:00.000-07:00

Kishangarh art is simply concerned with the realities of life; above all, with passionate love service, conceived as the symbol of all combination. Rajput art creates a magic world where all men are heroic, passionate and shy, all women are beautiful, beast both wild and tame are friends of man and trees and flowers are conscious of the footsteps of the bridegroom as he passes by. This magic world is not unreal or fanciful, but a world of imagination and eternity, observable to all who do not refuse to see with the transfiguring eyes of love.

By the middle of thirteenth century Islam was firmly recognized in India and during this time forward Sufism influenced Hinduism greatly. The Sufi position of union with God through devotional love was seen a mirror reflection and complementary to the devotion of Krishna in Vaishnavite division of Hinduism. Vedantic idea of Oneness found its admiration in the Supreme Oneness of Allah and Islam's teachings.

According to Chaitanya, God or Krishna who is the symbol of God on earth is the lover and the soul of man is his bride represented by Radha, For describing the stages of Radha's love for Krishna, the similarity of human love was adapted. Such paintings were, at first sight, easy to understand. Although they alternated between two methods of expression - the first a style of savage distortion, the second a style of the softest grace--each manner enlivened the ordinary subject.

Best way to express our paintings

2009-06-08T02:54:00.000-07:00

Basically, Painting is a expression applied to the deliberate application of paint to a surface, whether for decoration and protection of that surface, or in order to create an image upon that surface. Paint can be used to express color, emotions and a distortion of realism, and so that is what it tends to be used for. The best way to do this is to focus on rising one area of painting at a time. For example, when dealing with color, experiment purely with squares of color, to note the crash that one color has upon another. If experimenting with tone restricts your palette to just white, black, and the shades of grey that can be mixed with them. In doing this you will slowly build an understanding of the elements that make up painting. This is a good way to have fun with nature, learn a paint and express your creativity.

Yale Sued over Van Gogh Painting held by Soviets

2009-06-05T00:13:00.000-07:00

A successor of the onetime owner of a famed Van Gogh painting has sued Yale University in an effort to reclaim the artwork from the Ivy League school.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., Pierre Konowaloff alleged that the university should have known the painting - "The Night Café" - has been confiscated from his great-grandfather, a Russian industrialist and aristocrat, Ivan Morozov, during the Communist takeover of Russia in the early 1900s.

The 1888 painting was consequently sold by the Soviet government to a European gallery. Stephen Carlton Clark, a Yale alumnus, bought the paintings from a gallery in New York in the early 1930s and bequeathed it to Yale in 1961.

Traditional chinese painting in twentieth century

2009-06-03T23:14:00.000-07:00

The first decades of the twentieth century marked the end of the insular, tradition-bound Qing empire (1644–1911) and the strong entry of China into the modern age. Zhang, who became a most important connoisseur and collector, based his diverse painting styles on the firsthand study of early masterpieces, while Fu, an academic, learned about earlier works from reproductions and copies.

Fu Baoshi (1904–1965) and Zhang Daqian (1899–1983), both of whom studied in Japan and traveled abroad late in their lives, some powerful artists created hybrid styles that reflected a cosmopolitan attitude toward art and a willingness to modify inherited traditional through the incorporation of foreign idioms and techniques. Zhang, who became a important connoisseur and collector, based his diverse painting styles on the firsthand study of early masterpieces, while Fu, an academic, learned about earlier works from reproductions and copies.

With the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, cultural activities came under the power of the state. Seeking to reform traditional paintings to make it "serve the people," the Communist government mandated that artists follow a "revolutionary realism" that would celebrate the heroism of the regular people or convey the majesty of the motherland.

Informations about painter Mr.M.F.Hussain

2009-06-02T22:30:00.000-07:00

Mr. Maqbool Fida Husain has depicted lots of Hindu Gods and deities nude in his paintings. That at the same time his paintings related to Muslim and other religions does not depict any nudity in respect of the respective persons, Gods and goddesses. A comparison of his paintings on Hindu mythology and religion and other religion leads to the inevitable conclusion that the Hindu nude paintings become visible to be with the sole objective to hurt Hindu religious sentiment and insult the Hindu religion and provoke communal tensions in this country. Thus he is doing his business by drawing pornographically paintings of Hindu Gods and Godesses.

M F Husain has been chosen for Kerala government's prestigious Raja Ravi Varma Award. Announcing this year's award, education and culture minister M A Baby said the award comprising Rs.1.25 lakh in cash prize, a citiation and a sign would be presented to M F Husain on his birthday on September 17.

M F Husain paintings

Beautifull art paintings of women

2009-06-01T22:29:00.000-07:00

Real facts about paint types

2009-05-28T22:32:00.000-07:00

Basically, there are two paints – water based and oil-based.

Latex Paint is made with a water base and is usually used for the interior of your house. Latex paint is simple to clean up because you can dissolve it with soap and water. It has very small odor.

Oil-based (alkyd) paint is usually used for the exterior of your house. These paints are more durable and work well on surfaces that get lots of wear and tear. They are usually made with a Soya-based resin and need some kind of solvent for clean up, such as paint thinner.

What does gloss means? It means shine and the higher paint’s gloss, the shinier its appearance. The more gloss paint have, the easier it is to scrub or wipe clean.

Gloss categories:

-Flat paint is almost no shine in the paint, good for low-traffic areas such as dining rooms and bedrooms.

-Low-luster, a satin and eggshell paint has a subtle sheen that is glossier than a flat paint.
-Semi-gloss paint is more gloss than those listed above, and more durable.
-High-gloss paint is shiny and easy to wipe up. Great for trim, molding, cabinets and doors.

Instructions for decorating your walls

2009-05-27T01:58:00.000-07:00

1. Slide all four canvases together on a table or other flat surface so they form one big rectangle. Then trace your design, making sure some of the shapes or part of the scene extends between two or more of the individual canvases - this gives it the expert touch.

2. Next, slide the canvases apart and place that paint brush to work! Don’t forget to also persist the color down the sides and edges of the canvas.

3. Allow the paint dry. You may have to apply many coats.

4. When the paint is totally dry, it’s time to hang up your creation. When you attach them to the walls, leave about an inch or inch and a half in between every individual canvas, so you can see a sliver of wall in between each rectangle. Use a level to ensure the canvases aren’t crooked. You may want to grab a friend with a good eye to assist you with alignment.

5. You are finished! Enjoy your masterpiece and the compliments you’re sure to receive.

Art history of Egyptian tomb painting

2009-05-26T02:00:00.000-07:00

Figure shows the Egyptian sun god. His name is Ra (pronounced Rah). We know that this is a image of the Sun God because he has the head of a falcon and a sun disk above his head.

Teach your youngster a little art history and have fun while doing it. There are a number of components to this activity that can be integrated into a variety of curriculum including history and geography as well as art.

Here is a class to introduce your child to Egyptian tomb painting. Gather together some cardboard to make use of as a surface on which to draw and paint. A good foundation of cardboard is cereal boxes. Cut up one side and open the box level. Paint or colors on the inside surface. When you are completed you can display your painting as if it were the wall of an Egyptian tomb.

There are several symbols in an Egyptian tomb. A symbol is a image or an object that stands for something else. The Egyptians had a religion that we used to call the cult of Ra.

Digital Landscape won art prize

2009-05-25T01:52:00.000-07:00

A digital artist has been named Welsh Artist of the Year 2009 for his subversive take on a traditional landscape picture. Cardiff-based Tim Freeman's entry Hidden System beat 500 other entries to get the title.

He was presented among the £2000 winner's cheque in a ceremony at St David's Hall, Cardiff on Sunday.

His work will now form the centerpieces of an exhibition which runs until 25 July. The judging panel, which included renowned Welsh artist Terry Setch and previous year's winner Philippa Lawrence, said it was the "quality" of Mr Freeman's image which stood out from the other entries, as well as several by well-known and professional Welsh artists.

There were also prizes for artists in categories including applied arts, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, student, photography and time-based media and five highly commended awards.

Lowry painting exceeds estimation

2009-05-21T23:17:00.000-07:00

The council decided to sell the 1935 painting of Berwick-upon-Tweed's market area to raise money for its cultural programme. The painting was predicted to obtain between £300,000 and £500,000. The artwork, bought for 30 guineas in 1945, went to an unknown buyer at auction at Christie's in London. The work, by Laurence Stephen Lowry, was acquired in a straight from Lowry's agent by Henry Morris, who was then chief education officer of Cambridgeshire County Council.

On Thursday, it was obtainable at the 20th Century British Art sale by the Cambridgeshire Schools' Art Collection of Cambridgeshire County Council. Money raised will go towards the Cambridgeshire Culture programme, to support the cultural experiences of kids and young people.

PAINTINGS HAVE HEALING ABILITY

2009-05-21T04:45:00.000-07:00

Although these paintings looks unattractive, the mixture of energy colors i.e the color mixtures that are channeled with the vital Healing Energies. These images and textures in a finished Painting, activates the brain to generate chemicals and also helps the body cellular system to generate internal frequencies that helps the body to repair itself.

The ART of healing is being taken to a new level, this is art for health care and these paintings are known as art care therapy or therapeutic art medicine.

These healing Paintings are specially supportive for any negative circumstances or anyone with a health issue, and those in critical, unrelieved, delicate health situations that needs ongoing and non invasive energy support. The new intuitive children , due to their sensitive natures, receive extended beneficial results from these Paintings .

Landscape painting stolen from Dutch museum

2009-05-20T03:08:00.000-07:00

Thieves pried open the emergency door of a small Dutch museum with an iron bar and made off with six 17th-century and 19th-century landscape paintings and the second major art heist in 10 days in the Netherlands.

The paintings included three by Jan van Goyen, a prolific modern of Rembrandt who died in 1656. The others were a 17th century paintings by Pieter de Neyn and 19th-century pieces by Willem Roelofs and Adrianus van Everdingen. The damaged workings were by Salomon van Ruysdael and Salomon Rombouts.

The paintings, on loan from the Dutch government, were frequently river scenes set in the flat countryside typical of northern Holland, a specialty of the IJsselstein City Museum. The town is a community of Utrecht.

The major theft in the country took place in 1988 when three Van Goghs, with an estimated value of up to $90 million, were stolen from the Kroeller-Mueller Museum in a park in the eastern Netherlands. Police later recovered all three great paintings.

Chinese ink paintings displayed in japan

2009-05-18T23:15:00.000-07:00

An exhibition gathering ink painting works and calligraphy pieces formed by Chinese and Japanese artists is currently being held in Tokyo. As collaboration, the works interpret the theme of "He", or harmony, using light colors and misty strokes.

On display are pieces produced by Chinese ink painter An Yunji, whose teacher was the late master Zhang Daqian. There are also works by a few Japanese ink painters and calligraphers. Water lily, whose Chinese name "He", echoes the theme of the exhibition "harmony", are the frequent objects under the artists' brush.

Modern Chinese calligraphy has seen a integration of calligraphy with painting. This style can be seen in artist Chen Peibin's works. Chen was born in 1949, the same year of the beginning of the People's Republic of China. So his exhibition is not only the conclusion of his decades as an artist, but is dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of his mother country.

GLAZE PAINTING AND IT'S TECHNIQUES

2009-05-15T22:41:00.000-07:00

A glaze painting is a thin, transparent layer or coat of paint and glazing is just building up a color by applying thin, transparent layers or coats one at the top of another. Each glaze modifies the color of what’s already been painted on the canvas.

If you look through a sheet of yellow or blue plastic, everything would appear yellow or blue. If you try to overlap them, the yellow and blue together would visually blend and make everything appear as green. This is because light rays mix together, creating a visual color mixture . Great depth can be achieved by using several layers of transparent color. In a glaze painting, light rays penetrate the layers and strike the canvas surface and reflect back to the eye creating various visual color mixtures. This is the simple principle behind transparent glaze paintings.

Extremely transparent colors are needed for the final layers of glazes. Each layer of color must be thoroughly dry before the next is applied. So in some paintings a thin coat of separator vanish between the glazes is required.

Acrylic painting decorative and techniques

2009-05-13T22:55:00.000-07:00

Before beginning your adventure into acrylic paintings, you absolutely need to put on proper clothing. Acrylic paint is water-soluble only until it dries, making it almost impossible to wash out of fabric. For this reason, you will definitely want to wear old clothes and a paint smock before beginning any work with acrylic painting.

You can use these paints on almost any surface, but they work particularly well on textured surfaces like canvas or textured paper. However, with a proper base coat or primer applied, you can use acrylic paintings to accent wood, terracotta, and even glass. These paints are a very trendy choice for decorative painting projects.

Since acrylics dry quickly, this can pose a challenge for combination colors. There are particular palettes that you can purchase for acrylic painting that will enable the paints to stay wet longer. This can be a prudent investment if you are planning to do many painting. Bristle brushes usually work best with this type of paint, and synthetic bristles tend to be preferred over natural materials.

EMPOWER YOUR OIL PAINTING MORE BEAUTIFUL

2009-05-11T23:10:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of things to improve your painting.

Materials Needed:
• #2 pencils
• gummy erasure
• 36" ruler
• waterproof ink and ink pen
• Canvas or Masonite Panels
Brushes:
• Assorted rounds from "00-1".
• A few flats around the same sizes. 3-5 total.
• 3 large mop end, squirrel or artificial do fine.

Paints:
• Titanium White (of the three or four whites on the market this one provides a high white count, and covers undercoats better than the others)
• Burnt Umber
• Ivory or Mars black
• Yellow Ocher
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cadmium Red Medium
• Cadmium Yellow Light
• Alizara Crimson Red

As your skill and confidence goes on, you can mix colors for more use.you can create all color that you need.For eg. mixing of yellow and blue will give you a beautiful green!

Other Items:
• Damar Varnish
• Turpentine or low order turps
• Linseed Oil, (not boiled, but raw refined artist grade)
• Lavender Oil (found in health food stores under aromatherapy)(just a small 3 oz. bottle)
• Liquin Alkyd Medium
• Modeling Paste
• Gesso

The first 3 are must and the rest 2 can be purchased as you get more into the work. The last two items you need to prepare the canvas for painting using this technique.

LATEST PAINTING TREND

2009-05-07T00:05:00.000-07:00

Latest Painting Trend is an rising art form which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, impasto, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Traditional painting is painting with a physical medium as opposed to a more and more modern style like digital. Digital painting varies from other forms of digital art, particularly computer-generated art, in that it does not involve the computer rendering from a model.

The artist uses painting techniques to create the digital painting straightly on the computer. All digital painting programs try to imitate the use of physical media through various brushes and paint effects. There are also certain effects unique to each type of digital paint which portraying the realistic effects of watercolor on a digital 'watercolor' painting.

Generally digital painting user can create their own brush style using a combination of texture and shape. This capability is very important in bridging the gap between traditional and digital painting.

Brands of natural paintings

2009-05-06T01:37:00.000-07:00

The ‘natural’ paint movement began in Germany towards the end of the 20th Century in response to concern about the impact of modern chemical paints on the environment and health. There are now many brands of ‘natural’ paint on the market which maintain to be both safer to use and kinder to the environment than conventional products.

Of the seven brands featured in this report, four are made in Germany (Auro, Livos, BIOFA and earthborn) at the same time as three are made in the UK (Nutshell, ECOS and Green Paints).
Not all ‘natural’ painting are the same. Some contain no solvents, while others just contain fewer than conventional paints, using natural material instead. They may use turpentine or d-limonene as a solvent substitute to white spirit. Others might be VOC free but use other synthetic binders and resins. Linseed oil and casein can replace vinyl and acrylic plastic binders, and chalk and clay are a few times used as fillers instead of titanium dioxide.

Raphael paintings - web museum, Parris

2009-04-30T03:21:00.000-07:00

Madonna dell Granduca - Oil on wood, 84 x 55 cm

Maddalena

St. George Fighting the Dragon - Oil on wood, 28.5 x 21.5 cm

St. George Fighting the Dragon - Oil on wood, 30 x 26 cm

The small Cowper Madonna - Oil on wood, 59.5 x 44 cm

The nymph Galatea - Fresco, 295 x 225 cm

Bindo Altoviti - Oil on wood, 60 x 44 cm

Italian in full RAFFAELLO SANZIO , master painter was born in 1483, it was the largest and most successful in Urbino and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his great figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. His work is trendy for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.

While we may term other working paintings, those of Raphael are living things; the flesh palpitate, the breath comes and goes, every organ lives, life pulsates everywhere.

Nine paintings by wesslers

2009-04-28T02:35:00.000-07:00

There are nine paintings by Waters, who also make musical instruments and is a sculptor, graphic artist, musician and educator; and 11 by Wessler, plus his self-portrait, which hangs separately near the piano.

The paintings of the Wessler, a Coast urologist who died in January at age 92 and was widely recognized for his watercolor job, are on loan by his family for this exhibit.
Waters presents dramatic sun scenes and waterscapes that regularly portray atmospheric turbulence and are inspired by local and distant locations, including his travels in Hawaii and Roatan Island, Honduras.

Wessler’s paintings of figures and landscapes are in soft colors usually associated with the medium, and range from almost-photographically realistic to a blend of figurative and abstract. “Piano Player” is one such blend with sharp lines of the player’s face and hands that move into an increasingly abstract background.

Most popular BP Portrait award prizes

2009-04-22T04:44:00.000-07:00

An eerie and unsettling portrait of a young girl, a picture of a boy about to become a man, and a painting of a man who looks as if he has fully enjoyed the pleasures of being a man will compete for one of the UK's most popular art prizes, it was announced yesterday(april 21).

The shortlist was exposed for this year's BP Portrait award, now in its 30th year and as keenly contested as ever. In whole, 1,901 people entered works, the biggest entry and 10% up on last year.

The three artists competing for the £25,000 prize were named as Michael Gaskell, Annalisa Avancini, and Peter Monkman.

Most expensive paintings at all times

2009-04-16T22:27:00.000-07:00

The world's most famous paintings, particularly works done before 1800, are commonly owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless.

oil on canvas
23.4" x 22"
Dr. Gachet - Vincent van Gogh, 1890 , sold for $82,500,000 on May 15, 1990.

oil, silver, and gold on canvas
54.3" x 54.3"

Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Gustav Klimt, 1907 , sold for $135,000,000 on Jun 18, 2006 by Maria Altmann.

oil on canvas
39.4" × 32"
Garçon à la pipe - Pablo Picasso, 1905 - sold for $104,168,000 on May 4, 2004 .

oil on canvas

51" x 38"

Dora Maar au Chat - Pablo Picasso, 1941 - sold for $95,200,000 on May 3, 2006 .

oil on fabric

51.6" x 69"
Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876 - sold for $78,100,000 on May 17, 1990 .

oil on canvas

56" x 71.6"
Massacre of the Innocents - Peter Paul Rubens, 1611 - sold for £49,506,650 ($75,930,440) on Jul 10, 2002 .

oil on canvas
16" x 13"
sold for $71.5 million in 1998 in New York.

Painted in ca. 1893-1894 - sold for $60,500,000 on May 10, 1999

painted in 1901 - sold for $55,000,000 November 8, 2000 .

Vincent van Gogh , France in 1889 - sold for $ 54,000,000.

Famous painter Leonardo was born apr 15 and his bio-data

2009-04-15T04:03:00.000-07:00

The illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was born on April 15(today), 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence.

From 1485 to 1490, Leonardo produced a studies on loads of subjects, including nature, geometry, mechanics, flying machines, municipal construction, canals and architecture.

Between 1490 and 1495 he developed his habit of recording his studies in thoroughly illustrated notebooks. His work covered four main themes: painting, the elements of mechanics, architecture, and human anatomy.

About 1503, Leonardo reportedly began job on the "Mona Lisa." On July 9, 1504, he established notice of the death of his father, Ser Piero. From 1513 to 1516, he worked in Rome, maintaining a workshop and undertaking a range of projects for the Pope.

Leonardo da vinci died on May 2, 1519 at Cloux, France. Legend has it that King Francis was at his side when he died, cradling Leonardo da vinci's head in his arms.

Georgian O'Keeffe Museums

2009-04-13T04:01:00.000-07:00

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will present two particular exhibitions for its summer visitors in galleries eight and nine: Jimson Weed Returns from the White House and Georgia O'Keeffe museums: Beyond Our Shores from May 22 - September 20, 2009.

In 2002, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum loaned one of its iconic flower paintings to the White House, Jimson Weed, 1932, as one of a number of paintings selected from a variety of museums for the walls of the dining room in the White House's private quarters.

Jimson Weed was returned recently, and will be on display again for the first time in eight years, along with a number of sketches that O'Keeffe made of this flower. The Museum is providential to house a full range of O'Keeffe's art (1,150 works) from her daring and innovative abstractions of the 1910s and 1920s to her elegant and often provocative investigations of various subject matter, such as architecture, landscapes, flowers, rocks and bones. A selection of works from the everlasting collection will be on display throughout the rest of the Museum.

Award winners for acrylic and oil paintings

2009-04-09T00:10:00.001-07:00

Last week, Saturday night a new exhibition, "Just Folks," opened at the Stage Door Gallery, in which featured artist, Anne W. Holland, is displaying her figure paintings in acrylic and oil.

The response from other local artists was overpowering as well, and the gallery boasts a total of 63 works. This exhibition will remain in place through April 26.

With art critic Martine Strohmeyer choosing awards, Holland received a merit award for her acrylic and charcoal piece entitled "Just Friends."

Other merit award winners were: Dianne Appell, photo; Anne Bois, oil; Brenda Clark, acrylic; Gertraud Fendler, photo; Bob Lentz, wood; Muff Mariner, oil; Deborah Remmers, acrylic; Clelia Sheppard, oil; and Nancy West, oil.

Downtown street paintings done on this month

2009-04-06T23:23:00.000-07:00

An extended 2009 Dogwood Arts Festival adds new events while retaining the outdoor and arts attractions that build it East Tennessee's annual salute to spring.

The 49th festival events begins with a $125-per-person April 2 gala and patron party; events will continue through this month.

The 60 miles of Dogwood's seven trails and five, a little garden byways open April 8-24. This year's feature trail is Holston Hills; The April 21 "Diva Luncheon" at the Knoxville Museum of Art add a fashion show of wearable art. A new one-mile night race downtown will conclude the traditional festival parade April 24.

And there'll be a little bit of festival after April. The festival event hosts the Knox County Art Educators' Exhibition May 1-29 at the University of Tennessee's Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St.

Choosing paint colors for house paints

2009-04-02T04:56:00.000-07:00

Each specific color will reasonably have their particular compliment when it comes to the location of the house, for example:

Red

Houses painted with shades of red, such as pink, coral, or even rose can have a playful and feminine touch to it, although deeper shades can have a rather theatric effect to it.

Green

Shades of green have a tendency to provide a house an earthy feel, and look attributing to the color green being associated with nature and the environment.

Blue

The color blue has often been connected with a lot of things, including peace, contemplation, coziness, the deep ocean, and the wide open sky. With these in mind, houses colored with shades of blue often depict the same atmosphere, looking like calm and contemplative dwellings.

Update: ebay, friends & dino bones

2009-04-01T22:44:00.000-07:00

Stacked Bread No. 2
oil on canvas
10'' x 10"

The third commissioned piece is nearing completion, and I must have an image of that in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I've gotten back a small number of gallery paintings, and I've decided to auction them on ebay. Stacked Bread No. 2 will be the first. There will be three in total. Two paintings at 12 x 12, and one at 10 x 10.

In other news, our friend Robert Deyber just announced the publication of his first hardbound book of select paintings. Production was handled through his gallery, Martin Lawrence, and it's themes, A Language All His Own. Our copy arrived a few days ago, and it's terrific.

Iced Tea

2009-04-01T22:40:00.000-07:00

Iced Tea No. 2
oil on canvas
12'' x 12"

Here is the second of three superior paintings to be auctioned on ebay. It's 12 x 12 on gallery wrapped canvas. Tomorrow I'll post the last piece for auction. The third commission for Chicago is finish, but I'm going to wait until these auction paintings are all up before I post the image. The theme for this one is Family, and I'm truly pleased with how it turned out.

Sliced Bread No.2

2009-04-01T22:33:00.000-07:00

Sliced Bread No. 2
oil on canvas
12'' x 12"

And finally the third eBay paintings for this week, Sliced Bread No.2. This will be the last large painting on canvas to be listed on eBay for a while. The Chicago commission is getting closer to completion, and I plan to get back to several small paintings on hardboard for auction once it's done. I'll also have to get busy produce new work for the galleries.

3rd Completed Commission: Family

2009-04-01T22:20:00.000-07:00

Family
oil on canvas
24'' x 24"

Here is the third of four commissioned paintings headed to Chicago . The title or theme of this painting is, "family". I had come up with a number of ideas while contemplating this title, but it was Karen's suggestion of using shoes that finally made the cut. It was an inspired idea. The "fathers" shoe, in back, was issued to me at Lack land Air Force Base on November 17, 1972. They were part of my dress blues, and I still wear them today as my dress shoes.

Secrets of oil painting to make good painter

2009-04-01T04:59:00.001-07:00

Technique is not the secret of paintings. It's not using tissues, toothbrushes, sponges, cotton swabs, palette knives, or razor blades along with your artist paint brushes. Nor is it regarding "put a little blue here." All of these have a place in our bag of drawing and painting actions ... but the real secret of picture making is composition.

Paintings have underlying principles that manage the elements of the picture in order to bring the eye of the viewer into and around the image in an interesting way and to organize the elements into a cohesive whole.

In a painting of a sky, mountain range and valley let's say you want the sky to control. You would make the sky ½ the height of the canvas (3/6ths).

To be sure, an understanding of technique, color theory, form, drawing, perspective and proportion need to be studied and developed but they should serve on an fundamental structure.

Composition is the secret of paintings.

Important Steps to Make Laminate Countertop on your house

2009-03-31T05:03:00.000-07:00

Of course before you begin making any sort of countertop you should first consider what will support the counter. Most people use cabinetry of some sort for this reason though there have been those who have used open space beneath their countertops. It all finally comes down to a matter of taste but if you are using open space beneath your countertops you will want to be absolutely certain that you can support the weight when you make laminate countertop.

The first thing you will require to do is decide whether you are going to cover your existing countertop, you are going to create additional countertops, or you are going to do both. I vote for both if there is the slightest possibility of enough room to make additional countertop space and can think of very few women who would be opposed to that notion.

It is a good idea to cut the laminate a little bigger than you think you will need. This gives you the opportunity to trim the strips with a router for a straighter edge before adding the next part of laminate.

How can you make laminate countertop?

Steps for building stages

2009-03-30T04:05:00.001-07:00

Once the plans are drawn, the materials have been chosen, and your finance is arranged, the next steps in the building process are likely to be:

1. Finding a builder (and subcontractors if you are organizing the building project yourself).
2. Getting tenders and quotes.
3. Revising the budget, if required.
4. Making your choice of builder and subcontractors.
5. Signing the contracts.

General maintenance for windows and doors

2009-03-24T22:34:00.000-07:00

Take special care not to damage the coating when cleaning coated or specialized glass – follow the manufacturer’s instructions.

Doors sticking or jamming: This could be due to dirt, lack of lubrication or misalignment. Clean the locks and lubricate with graphite powder. If the lock is uneven it will jam. If essential, re-align the door.

Loose glazing rubber: Age and exposure to sunlight will get smaller glazing rubber causing it to pull out at the corners or shrink back leaving gaps.

Corroded hinges: This is caused by salt spray, lack of cleaning, or the incorrect type of metal being used. Clean and oil the hinge.

Water damage: Water damage around windows can be caused by compression or leaks. Try to reduce the quantity of condensation in your home.

Guidelines for using a ladder when painting your house

2009-03-23T03:14:00.000-07:00

-Make sure your ladder is in good state before use. Look for loose or damaged rungs, damaged rails and missing or worn non-slip feet. If the ladder is damaged, get it repair or replaced.

-Make sure the ladder is sitting on a level base, putting a ladder on uneven floor can cause it to topple under your weight.

-If the ground is soft utilize a baseboard or sheet of plywood under the ladder footing.

-Prop the ladder at the correct angle - one meter out for every four meters up.

-Use a long enough ladder for the task – ladders must extend 1m past the structure being climbed.

-Place the ladder at a point where the roofline or other structure is closest to the floor.

-Check there is somewhere to tie the top of the ladder near where it is resting. If there isn’t, relocate the ladder before going up.

-Have the ladder steadied by another person until the top can be anchor or tied. This person must secure the base of the ladder with their feet and hold the ladder with both hands.

-It’s a good idea to have a piece of strong cord permanently looped around the top rung to tie it off. Synthetic cord between 4-8mm is ideal.

-Don’t hold tools in your hands as you go up the ladder. Use a tool belt or backpack for larger objects. Heavy items should be pulled up with a rope.

-Make sure there are no electrical wires that might pose a threat of electrocution.

Noisy water pipes and its types

2009-03-19T23:11:00.000-07:00

There are three general types of noise water pipes can make:

Whistling: Due to water passing through pipes speedily or through taps that are too small. Tight bends in pipe direction might be the culprit. If practical, straighten the pipes out, or obtain a plumber to fit a pressure-limiting valve.
Chattering: Caused by movable pipes or worn tap washers. Clip the pipes strongly or replace the tap jumper and washer.
Hammering: Caused by water traveling at high speed through pipes then coming to a sudden stop as the tap or appliance is turned off. Copper or other rigid piping is mainly prone to hammering. Persistent hammering is possible to cause additional wear and tear on the pipes and joints. Hammer arresters can be fitted to reduce this trouble.

Common ideas for maintaining the roof

2009-03-11T22:59:00.000-07:00

Some maintenance tasks are common to all types of roof, others are specific to the exacting roof type. Some tasks will require to be completed more often if you live close to the sea or in a geothermal area. Flashings may not last as long as the roof so they will need more maintenance. Anything that penetrates the roof, such as pipes, flues or fixings, needs special care to make sure weather tightness.

To avoid damaging the roof and guttering when you are up on the roof:

Place a timber block in the gutter immediately behind the ladder to stop crushing the guttering.
Walk only along the line of nails on steel roofing.
Step only on the front edge of the tile on tiled roofs - for full inspections use a plank as a path. Beware the danger of slipping as angles can be steep.
Using cherry picker if there is access around the house for one.

Remodel the additional bathroom to your home

2009-03-02T02:00:00.000-08:00

The best reconstruct remodeling jobs you can undergo is adding an additional bathroom to your home or remodel one that already exists.

A few of the considerations we'll go over with you when reconstructing powder rooms consist of: ventilation, lighting, fixtures, wallpaper, flooring, and windows. If it sounds overwhelming, that's ok. We can ease your mind and help you in selecting the exact right items for your Houston bathroom remodel.

After going over bathroom ideas and deciding what you are dreaming of, we'll draft the plans, find the required applications and licenses from the city, and start working on building your dream bathroom.

Remodeling your house kitchen and bathroom

2009-02-22T23:28:00.000-08:00

Your kitchen and bathrooms specify much about your house. Even the small changes of these sectors can make them more functional and at ease. If you just bought a new house or your house ages, even the small change of the kitchen and the bath can make affect a radical. The new boxes and cooking equipments can regenerate your kitchen with a more modern glance. The floor and the countertops can be replaced to make with your kitchen a hotter place for the family with the gathering. Because the bathrooms age, remodeling with new the material and boxes, or even just of the certain new accessories or floor of bath, are all in the ways simple to make your house more attractive.

The re-establishment of kitchen is a direct thing of investment. This is why it is really value to spend a little more money as professionals of restoration and hiring of kitchen which will help you with the procedure of restoration of kitchen .

How to make bathroom countertop

2009-02-15T22:28:00.000-08:00

Making a bathroom countertop is an perfect way to provide extra storage space, meaning that all the lotions and potion you use in the bathroom are readily to hand.

If you’re replacing an existing bathroom countertop, or installing one for the first time into an existing bathroom, you should take care to make sure that the material you use for the countertop is sympathetic to the existing style of fittings and décor of the bathroom.

A wide range of colors, patterns, textures and designs makes laminate one of the most admired bathroom countertop ideas people use. Laminates low cost and availability as prefabricated sections also makes it attractive to many working in a hurry and on a budget.

Remodeling the bathroom floors

2009-02-08T22:13:00.000-08:00

The bathroom is a special space in a house with unique needs. Accommodations require to be made for fixtures and plumbing and one of the first concerns will be framing the floor. Adding the last Touches when Finishing. Your bathroom floor plan should detail locations of toilets, shower stalls and bathtubs; if these are taken into consideration when floor joists are laid out, you will not require to move joists or make cuts in them later on. You will need to center the first floor joist no more than a distance of 8 ¼ inches from the bathroom’s finished wall. This takes into consideration that when a toilet is located against a wall, it’s closet bend will be centered about 12 inches from that finish wall.

So if your joists in that are spaced at 6 inches center on center, there will be at least 3 inches clearance from the toilet drain center to the nearest joist and 6 inches of clearance of the closet bend. Remaining floor joists can then be laid out with usual pitching.

known about Remodeling your basement

2009-02-05T22:43:00.000-08:00

When a basement is remodeled it potentially will need the same infrastructure as the rest of the house to some amount. By this I mean wall construction, electrical, flooring, and in many cases, plumbing, windows.

Your exterior walls (the ones on the outside of the house, not the interior partition you will likely be building) must be well insulated. A regular method of framing these walls is using furring strips rather than studs. They are thinner than conventional studs so you will save money here. On concrete walls they can be attached either with a powder actuate tool or by nailing them with cut nails. Then you just hang your sheet rock or paneling on them.

Establish the layout when installing the kitchen cabinets

2009-02-02T04:26:00.000-08:00

Whether you are dealing with a new installation or remodeling an old kitchen, installing kitchen cabinets has to be done accurately or you'll have doors and drawers that won't open or close correctly, and liquid and food rolling off countertops that are not level. Mark out the footprint of the cabinets you have ordered by measuring up and penciling the layout on the floor and walls.

Use a spirit level to exactly draw lines. For corners, check with a framing square and if any corner is out-of-square, you'll need to compensate when installing the cabinets. This can be a matter of deliberately misaligning the cabinets slightly, instead of trying to correct the walls themselves. Remove the doors and drawers for easier installation.

How to Stripping Old Paints

2009-01-29T20:13:00.000-08:00

If you want to entirely change the color of your cabinets, you may need to strip the paint off of them, so that you can begin painting them from a clean slate. You may want to use a primer first on your cabinets. Ensure that you follow a good Do It Yourself project guide with instructions to achieve the look that you want.

By painting kitchen cabinets yourself you will have full organize over the project, but for some people, finding the time to complete a task of this size is simply too much. It may be easier way to hire a professional who will handle the task of painting your kitchen cabinets for you.

Task of Painting your kitchen cabinet

2009-01-26T20:50:00.001-08:00

Though it may seem a easy task at first, many people are often put off from undertaking this job themselves. First, you have to decide what type of look you would like for your cabinets.

You can create a whole new appear by stenciling a special pattern or design on your cabinets as well. Whichever method or look you prefer, you can find step-by-step instructions that will make painting your kitchen cabinets easier. Craft books and home decorating ideas can walk you through the method from cleaning and preparing your cabinets all the way down to adding a final coat of paint.

Known about painter and decorator

2009-01-23T20:49:00.000-08:00

A painter and decorator is a tradesman responsible for the painting and decorating of building such as houses. The painter and decorator was responsible for the combination of the paint; keeping a prepared deliver of pigments, oils, thinners, driers and sundries. The painter could use his experience to establish a suitable mixture dependent upon the nature of the job. This role has reduced almost to zero as modern paint manufacturing technique and architect specifications have created a reliance on brand label products.

Larger firms operating within the trade were generally capable of performing many painting or decoration services, from signwriting, to the gilding of items or even the finishing or re-finishing of furniture.

Apply painting your computer case

2009-01-20T20:45:00.001-08:00

Anyone can spray paint their case. It’s not too hard to get a decent looking paint job from normal cans of spray paint. But to get a truly extreme paint job, the kind you’d see on a show car, you’ll need to apply some plain coat, and a healthy amount of elbow grease. Fortunately neither one is very costly.

Every time we apply paint we pick up an “orange peel” texture. That’s inherent in using a rattle can to apply paint.

Try to use that as an indication to back off the pressure on your sanding block. 600 grit is very fine, and when the surface approach flatness, you’ll feel the work piece “grab” your sanding block. If you keep up powerful pressure at that point, you’re likely to cut through. Low spots will illustrate up as glossy black pits against the matte where you’ve sanded. You’ll need to dry the work piece to see these, but they show you where you require to sand further. Work spent flattening these will pay off–otherwise they’ll explain as dimples in your finish.

Manufacturer of painting an iron roof

2009-01-19T02:29:00.000-08:00

Many people go to the expense of re-roofing their house when all that is necessary is treatment of the weatherworn galvanized iron. Rusted but sound metal can be restore with a rust converter, a paint on product that turns rust back into solid metal. Corrugated iron that has lost much of its protective galvanizing can be treated with an inhibitor that will prevent the arrangement of rust.

Specific treatment of a deteriorating corrugated iron roof depends on the type of system adopted by the manufacturer of your favored brand of paint. Each of these systems is efficient; the need is to follow the recommendations faithfully and, above all, to avoid mixing brands of paint. The top coat of one manufacturer, for example, may not be well-matched chemically with the undercoat of another manufacturer.

Functionality of paint coating

2009-01-12T23:13:00.000-08:00

Paint is used to protect, preserve, decorate , or add functionality to an object or surface by covering it with a pigmented coating. Paint may be used to add functionality by modify light reflection or heat radiation of a surface. Another example of functionality is make use of color to identify hazards or to identify the function of equipment, such as pipelines or military ammunition.

Someone who paints artistically is generally called a painter or artist, while someone who paints commercially is often referred to as a painter and decorator, or house painter. There are many types of artist’s paints: for example, oils, watercolor, acrylic, gouache.

Paint can be applied to almost any kind of object. It is used, among many other uses, in the production of art, in industrial coating, as a driving aid or as a barrier to prevent or water damage. Paint is a semi finished product, or intermediate good as the final product is the painted article itself.

Paint can also be mixed with glaze to generate various textures and patterns. This process is referred to as faux finish and is quite popular with discerning homeowners, architects and interior designers.

Maintenance and renovation of lead based painting

2009-01-08T22:06:00.001-08:00

Proper maintenance entails repainting before chipping or peeling occurs. Many children are poisoned during insecure renovations or repainting jobs in pre-1978 housing. Therefore, homeowners are encouraged to carefully stabilize any deteriorated paint in a lead-safe manner. Then simply repaint with new paint planned for household use.

The principles of lead safety during remodeling also include restricting access to the work area by not allowing children or pets to enter, laying thick plastic sheeting on the floor to collect dust, use of a HEPA-filtered vacuum, wet washing surfaces to clean thoroughly at the conclusion of each day and the end of the job, and individual attention to cleaning with repeat washing with detergent and vacuuming to pick up all remaining dust. In preparing the surface for painting, be aware that dry sanding or dry scraping may generate undesirable lead dust, so spray a mist of water onto the surface to be prepped. These “wet sanding” and “wet scraping” methods create much less dust than its dry counterparts and is required by law.

Ways for moisture reaches painted woods

2009-01-05T02:35:00.000-08:00

Peeling can result when wood enlarge and contracts from moisture, eventually causing a paint coating to loosen. Moisture reaches painted wood a number of ways:

- Through uncaulked joints

- Through worn-out caulk

- Gutters full of ice or debris

- From moisture inside the building

- Through damp basements

- Painted boards too close to ground

- Plant growth

- Leaky roofs

Peeling can also result when painting over wood that has had insufficient drying time after exposure to moisture from rain, dew or pressure-washing.

Blistering when painting over the surface

2009-01-01T21:00:00.000-08:00

Two main types of blisters: those caused by moisture and those caused by heat. Moisture blisters can be caused when moisture from inside a building is drawn to the outside walls because it has no where else to go. In summer, the sun heats the siding, and the water behind the film vaporizes. Blistering can also result when painting over a surface that has had insufficient drying time after exposure to moisture from rain, dew or pressure-washing. Unlike peeling problems, the moisture blisters can actually disappear afterwards and remain almost undetectable.

Heat blisters result when the sun causes the outside of the coating to dry too fast, trapping solvents or water between the old and new coats of paint.

Need to known about chalking

2008-12-30T21:11:00.000-08:00

Chalking is the breakdown of a outside layer binder due to exposure to the ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun. Causes included as below:

- Failure to correctly prime and seal a surface.

- Excess thinning the paint.

- Spreading the paint too thinly.

Oil-based paints are additional prone to chalking than acrylics. While it is normal for paint to wear over time, extreme chalking must be resolved to ensure that the new coat of paint will bond.