Aesthetics and theory of painting
2009-4-26 6:26:56 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Aesthetics tries to be the "science of beauty" and it was an important issue for such 18th and 19th century philosophers as Kant or Hegel. Classical philosophers like Plato and Aristotle also theorized about art and oil painting in particul...
How To Prepare Slippery Surfaces for Decorative Oil Painting
2009-4-25 7:49:15 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
The keys to successful decorative oil paintings on slippery or smooth surfaces such as glass or ceramics are a thoroughly clean surface and the right paint.Here's How: Regardless of what type of slippery or smooth surface you're going to be oil pa...
How To Varnish an Acrylic or Oil Painting
2009-4-18 21:27:3 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Varnish is more than simply a layer to protect your oil painting from pollution in the atmosphere and abrasion. It will also bring out the colors to the brilliance they had when you applied them.Difficulty: AverageTime Required: Depends on size of pa...
How To Prime a Canvas For Acrylics or Oils
2009-4-18 21:24:15 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
When you've stretched a canvas, the next step is to prime it so you can paint on it. With a ready-made gesso suitable for both acrylic and oil paintings, this is easy.Here's How: Make sure you buy a bottle of gesso that's suitable for both acrylic...
Before You Buy Oil Painting Supplies
2009-4-16 10:21:38 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Oil paintings are very popular because they dry slowly, enabling you to work with the painting for quite a while after you've applied it to a canvas or board. Once the paint has dried, it can be overpainted without disturbing the original paint. Stra...
How To Stretch Your Own oil paintings
2009-4-14 20:41:28 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Most painters will agree that there's nothing like oil painting on canvas. But pre-stretched and primed canvases can be expensive, which means that all too often we keep our canvases for 'good' oil paintings. By stretching your own canvas, you can no...
The properties of the various solvents and resins used in oil painting
2009-4-13 2:14:29 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Solvents are added to oil paints to temporarily change the way they work and are designed to evaporate evenly and totally as the oil paint dries. Solvents are also used to dissolve resins, making mediums, cleaning up, and for cleaning brushes. ...
Oil Paintings Techniques ----Fat Over Lean
2009-4-9 7:29:24 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
The principle of oil painting 'fat over lean' is one of the fundamental concepts of oil paintings and one to follow to reduce the risk an oil painting cracking. 'Fat over lean' has got to do with the varying drying times of oil pigments and ens...
Who is the inventor of oil painting?
2009-2-24 21:18:23 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
The Europe's ancient painters found its flaws and shortcomings during the process of studting.Such as: the color is difficult integration between the next Halo, not soft colors Guang-yan, the small number of cable is too laborious. As well as in wet ...
What is "Tan Peila" painting?
2009-2-16 20:2:22 Post:long | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
“Tan Peila” is the English transliteration of “Tempera”,which from the ancient Italian, means "reconcile" "stirring" refers to all after the water-soluble, the color of plastic binders and composition of th...