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Tips on Oil Painting - Advanced Palette

In this article I will discuss the tube colors belonging to an advanced palette based on a basic 6-color palette. I find these colors the most useful and often necessary to round out a versatile palette. The 6-color basic palette consists of the following colors:

Monet's Water Lilies: The Healing of a Nation

In the summer of 1918, Claude Monet, the great French Impressionist was facing disaster. In the distance, the 78 year old artist could hear the guns of the German army, signaling the advance of the enemy. World War I was in its fourth year and German soldiers could be at Monet's beloved estate

Australian art: The best photos take landscape photography?

Simply put, landscape photography is to capture the beauty of the relieves and elements of nature with their immense and the microscopic dimensions. In its pure form, this form of photography, Australia tries to capture ...

Van Gogh's Shoes

Shoes and Boots by Vincent van Gogh are key paintings from the career of this skilled post-impressionist artist. Both specifically underline both the poor life that the artist lived for much of his life but also show how he was interested in the relatively mundane objects from the lives of the more

Buy Amazing Wedding Gift Work Online

Wedding is the most special occasion of one's life. There are many things you can gift to a wedding couple. People give clothes, jewellry, kitchenware, electronics and much more. When it comes to presenting a ...

BIM Or Building Information Models And Its Basics

Organization Information Modelling (BIM) techniques will be to layout techniques what foundations are going to properties: Essential, It's an extra-efficient way of handling details made by building details. These types are produced by data made ...

Four Things About Pastels You'll Want to Know

There are certain things about pastels that you should know before diving into painting with pastels. They can be a rather messy medium so knowing couple of tricks will help to make the creation of your masterpiece a whole lot easier.

Can You Learn How to Paint?

Lots of people want to learn how to paint. The sad part is that many of these eagerly interested individuals never realize their dreams. They may stop from attempting to master this visual art form because they think they aren't born with natural talent. It's about time everyone realized t

His Most Famous Painting (Las Meninas) - Velazquez

"Las Meninas" or "The Maids of Honor" is an illustrious painting, the native of Seville, Spain, Diego Velazquez created in 1656, as a court painter of King Philip IV. In this oil on canvass work, the artist, who was quite close to the King of Spain, makes his presence felt amongs

Pictures of Cows

If you are searching for pictures of cows, then you will discover an interesting variety of photos and illustrations in books and several websites online. People and children like animals of all types and they enjoy viewing pictures of animals such as pictures of cows that depict the individual char

Self-Portraits - Can We Ever Know Why Artists Make Them?

Any of the world-famous painters you can name have represented themselves in self-portraits. The list of prolific of self-painters is lead by Rembrandt and Vincent Van Gogh. This article will focus on the one who is considered by many to be the one who most affects us on the human, emotional level.

Art Collectors - Increase the Value of Your Artwork, Don't Devalue Your Art!

Art collectors are often shocked and angered when the value of their artwork depreciates if it isn't well treated and maintained. I see artwork that has mold and lost half of the color due to fading. When you mention it to the selling collector, they usually become indignant and tell you that n

A Window Into Another Dimension

Gazing at the artwork of Orna Benshoshan feels like stepping into another world - a world of endless possibilities, of distant horizons and landscapes full of light and mystical figures that play, dance, meditate and ...

Giclee Fine Art Prints

Giclee prints also known as iris prints is a kind of printing method that is used to create fie art prints. This is a customized and state-of-the-art printing methodology that produces prints in abund

Faking Mood Lighting in 3D Modeling

To create spotlight effects (such as under-lighting or light pooling), you can repeat the preceding "create it in MAX" technique or use the lighting filters available in many image-editing packages to get similar results. Moving a MAX light around in 3D space can give you a much more speci