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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 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

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

About Cartoon Characters

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One of the most popular film formats used throughout history is animation. To add life to animation, cartoon characters have been created throughout the years and become a huge part of pop culture. Whether it is a human, animal, inanimate object or something else, cartoon characters can come to life

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 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

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

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

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.

Make DVD Labels From Poster Scans

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Sometimes, the one-sheet poster of a given movie looks much better than the subsequent DVD cover, and they all look better than an empty DVD case. High-definition poster scans, rendered in a computerized format such as jpeg or TIFF, can be used to create an effective DVD label. This comes in handy w

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

How to Draw the Female Shape Structure

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Drawing a picture of a woman or girl starts with drawing the structure of the body and the body shape before drawing in the details. The shape of the body is vital to positioning clothes over the body and the pose of the body as well as the final details. To draw the shape of the female body, start

Badger 155 Airbrush Instructions

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The Badger 155 "Anthem" airbrush is a versatile, all-purpose painting tool that works well with many types of paints and on many surfaces. Like most airbrushes, however, its intricate parts and complicated use can be daunting to a beginning airbrush artist.

How to Clean an Ink Pen

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Ink pens sometimes get clogged. Buildup from ink and sediment can begin to form hard material that blocks the ink from flowing in most fountain and ink pens if they aren't cleaned regularly. Luckily it's not difficult to clean and clear ink buildup from any pen with a few simple techniques.

How 3D Animation Begins

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3D animation is the constant rising trend for most of the films right now. Computer generated motion pictures has become the part of modern film industry that both children and grown-ups will love. In this article, you will find brief description of various processes that are involved in 3D animatio