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How to Repaint a Painted Chandelier

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With the expense of light fixtures in general and chandeliers in particular, painting a tired or unattractive chandelier is a smart way to give your home a new look without blowing your budget on a pricey new piece. While metal chandeliers normally require a coat of metal primer before painting, a c

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How to Build a Boom Pole

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Sound production is one of the most important and least obvious aspects of film and video production. A movie or TV show could be beautifully shot and edited, but if dialogue comes in at a low volume, or contains an echo from being recorded too far away, it the overall quality of the work will be ne

How to Oil Paint Using a Limited Color Palette

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Art stores carry so many brilliantly hued paints, choosing only a few is difficult. Budding artists often buy many different colors of paint and use them all in one painting, but an overload of random color creates chaos on the canvas. Use the limited color palette of the old masters to paint a land

The Sky Crawlers

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Mamoru Oshii's dreamlike meditation on warfare, memory and eternal youth is one of his more accessible films, with terrific aerial action sequences.

Tips to Shoot With a Polarizing Filter

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Slipping on a pair of polarized sunglasses can be like seeing into a new world. Colors can be more intense, The absence of glare makes things seem sharper, and reflections on glass surfaces may disappear. Slipping a polarizer on your camera does much of the same for your photographs, giving saturati

Stretching Linen Canvas for Oil Painting

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Though pre-stretched and primed canvas is available to purchase, many artists prefer to buy their canvas in bulk, and stretch and frame it on their own. This process may be difficult at first, but once you get the hang of it, you can easily form your own canvas in whatever size you prefer. Canvas co

How to Draw a Basket

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Baskets are handy items and decorative, too. Basket weaving is a creates intricate designs that are sometimes difficult to transfer into drawing form. Picnic baskets, at times, have a high degree of drawing difficulty because of the bends and weaves. You can transfer the technique used in paper ba

How to Put a Signature on a Painting

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Signing your painting upon completion gives it authenticity and validity, as you are making a statement that it is your original work of art. This not only makes it official and complete, but art buyers want to know who the artists are in order to buy future paintings from them. Treat the signature

How to Fix a Wall That Is Rough and the Old Paint Has Peeled Off

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Aged paint loses its adhering abilities and peels away from the wall, creating cracks and flakes. The wall behind the paint has to be refinished and made smooth in order to get your new paint finish to adhere to the wall properly. A rough and peeling wall is not difficult to repair but does take som

How to Draw Contour Landforms in SketchUp

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Create landforms in SketchUp by drawing a series of curves with the Freehand drawing tool, raising those curves to different heights with the Move tool and applying the Contour command to produce the landform. This approach to creating terrain and landforms lets you draw these objects any shape and

Technical Drawing Exercises

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Technical drawing exercises are activities that beginning drafters perform to learn how to produce clear drawings.house plan image by Jon Le-Bon from Fotolia.comTechnical drawing exercises are activities that beginning drafters perform to learn how to produce clear drawings, which are...

Naruto Vs Naruto Shippuden

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I'm going to discuss what I like about each series and compare them. What I really enjoy about the original Naruto was the friendships. The relationships between Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura.

How to Draw Furry Fox Faces

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Both the grey and red fox are considered sly and wily, the subject of many children's fairy tales and fantasies, but in truth they're resourceful animals that are an important part of the forest ecosystem. Still, the furry little creatures make for great cartoon fodder, as evidenced in many cartoons

How to Block Print

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The art of wood-block printing utilizes drawing, carving and color design. It can be used on any type of fabric, paper, wall, metal and wood. It is easy to make your own gift wrap or wallpaper using the wood-block printing process. Linoleum blocks and silkscreen inks are easily available at art sho