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What Are Toned Grounds For Artists?

Why do artists use toned grounds and what are they? Once you understand you will realize the major impact they will have on your paintings!

Abstract Landscape Paintings: Where Emotions Lie

If you really want to wash away the everyday dust deposited on the soul, art is the finest way of doing that. The artist truly believes that the life is not about imitating art, but ...

Pottery Kiln

This chamber is used to burn and harden materials especially firing of clay to form potteries and ceramics. But apart from this, there are also many other uses of a kiln, like drying woods, lumber, tobacco leaves and barley, hops for the purpose of brewing. It is also used to perform Pyrolysis on wo

Kid's Art on Canvas

What do you do with your children's creative drawings, scribbles, painting and sketches? Do you put it up on the refrigerator with a magnet? Do you tack it up on the office wall? There's a better way to treat the beautiful works of art your children make! Having them scanned and printed on

Easy to Draw Animals for the Young or Old

It is said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words'. Indeed research has proven that people respond to learning through pictures much better than with words or text. A picture can be a simple ...

How to Design a Professional Banner (part 2)

When you open up your software of choice to do the banner you need to be really professional about it. You need to realize that your banner represents you and the website or campaign you are promoting, this means that you need to present it in the best possible manner. It means that you need to be e

Morris Graves, Northwest Mystic Painter

Despite a prodigious creative output spanning six decades and being universally celebrated as one of the most important American painters of 20th century modern art, Morris Graves, who died in 2001, not only remains an enigma but is relatively unknown, especially to younger generations. In part, thi

The Use of Colors in Tanjore Paintings

Tanjore paintings depict mainly the scenes from the ancient scriptures of Hindu religion and are one of the most famous style of paintings from south India. These paintings are unique due to the harmony of colors, the design, and the traditional techniques used with meticulous attention to details.

Where To Buy Good Oil Paintings

When we think of paintings all we can think of are places like museums, art galleries and louvers. But wait a second aren't we forgetting something? Our very own art galleries and shopping mart right in our living rooms, that;s right we could have all the goodies, packaged right into our deskto

Battle of the Techniques: Raster Vs Vector - Who Wins?

By now even regular clients who use photo-editing services know that there is something called Raster graphics and Vector scaling. But the finesse of the two only the skilled designers will know. How can creativity bring the two diverse techniques in one design is a challenge.

Easily Creating Stained Glass Designs

Discover how to start your stained glass designs the right way so you don't end up having to restart. Also find out the best kind of stained glass patterns you can use and why they work.

Oil Painting Is A Rich Medium

The great works of art that came from the Renaissance era and continues to be appreciated today are all created using a painting technique that makes use of oil as a medium for drying and adding gloss and protection for the resulting canvas. The beauty of these oil paintings has existed for the past

Utamaro and His Five Woodblock Masterpieces of Women

One of the dominating themes in the history of art anywhere in the world has always been female beauty. Parodoxically, few artists are primarily identified with this theme. A major exeption is the Jap

Music and Art

Artists have been using music for inspiration for centuries. In this article I give you some ideas on how you can use music to help inspire your creativity.