Oil painting VS Tempera painting
2007-4-8 23:28:22 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Painting in oil colours, a medium consisting of pigments suspended in drying oils. Oil paint enables both fusion of tones and crisp effects and is unsurpassed for textural variation. The standard consistency of oil paint is a smooth, buttery paste. I...
Oil paintings tips for beginners
2007-4-8 23:1:57 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Please read it carefully,because it is useful not only to learners for drawing but also to buyers of paintings.Start your oil paintings with an acrylic underpainting - When you start an oil painting using oils, it can take some time for th...
How to draw people--how to use proportions when drawing people
2007-4-8 22:54:52 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Before you can draw a human figure with clothing, muscles, shading, etc., it is necessary to understand the basic proportions of the human figure. Proportions on a figure are simply how long the major anatomical parts of the body are, in relati...
Learn how to draw faces realistically
2007-4-8 22:52:20 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Drawing a face isn’t as hard as it looks. To draw a realistic human face, it takes mapping out the face correctly before you fill in the finer detail. If you would like to get the most out of this article, I recommend sitting down with a pad an...
How to draw people
2007-4-8 22:27:59 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
When you draw people,it is important for you to capture people's gesture, Imagine for a moment that the body is 3 blocks; one block for the skull; one block for the rib cage and one block for the hips. These blocks can be positioned any way you want ...
oil paintings brushes
2007-4-8 21:14:5 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Artists who paint with oil use brushes made of different materials to express varying degrees of intensity in their paintings. Somebody used a brush made with a hog’s bristle when he wanted his strokes to appear bold. Somebody used a brush made...
Take best care of your oil paintings
2007-4-6 23:7:34 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
The information given here is for the first-time art buyers to give a basic understanding of how to take best care of the original oil paintings they might have bought and chosen to live with.You may not believe it, but most non-artists are not aware...
You are an artist
2007-4-6 22:31:15 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Believe it or not, you are an artist. Only something else happens later, you just change your mind. The first steps of a child are always the most joyful! Children think in images. Their consciousness is not socially conditioned yet. Their...
Suggestions for buying oil paintings
2007-4-6 22:12:55 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:1 | Quote:0 | Browse:
When buying art for your home it is important at the outset to decide what you are buying art for. Peoples reasons split into three main categories ; decorating, collecting or investing and what you need to look for in each is very different. This ar...
Shocked by best selling paintings
2007-4-6 21:51:40 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
Lowry's the painting is top of the list, Monet painting have fans spread all over the world, his painting, however, not so beautiful in the artbook, but you'll be shocked if you look at a real oil painting on canvas, even it's an reproduction by good...