Painting is very interested activity, because you can show your own idea on it, you can painting on any place or media, like canvas, acrylic, wall, etc
painting is a hobby can make a good painter if we do many time, every week or every month. And we can explore the media.
We know, the painter like gary van gogh or Michelangelo start painting as a hobby so if you interested with this activity so why you don’t start from now. You can learn from book, or from video how to getting start painting and let show your creation.
First step to paint you must to choose kind of painting do you want, realism, abstract or anything and choose what kind of media to paint. If you choose canvas painting you must to preparing oil paint, canvas , pallet you can buy anything you need in the art shop.
And let’s start paint,
1. Draw the object with pencil first this will guide you to apply a color to the object
2. Coloring with oil painting from the background first and than step by step go to the details of paint.
3. Give the frame on your panting
4. Place painting. On the wall in your house.
Do it this activity every week with different object step by step and will be a good painter soon.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Brief History Of Oil Painting
The Mediterranean societies of antiquity, most notably the Greeks, the Egyptians and the Romans used a paint that consisted of a mixture of beeswax encaustic, mineral pigments like iron or copper and tempera. vegetal like flax, walnut and poppy seed oil were known to these cultures, but there is no specific indication that they were used in paint.
This method of paint creation, as with so much ancient technology, was lost in the intervening years, the final blow to paint creation likely being the fall of Rome. Thereafter the encaustic paint was replaced by oil or tempera paints.
Tempera paint is a mixture of an organic binder such as whole eggs or animal glue, water, and vegetal essential oils. It has a thinner consistency than oil paint and dries much quicker.
Oil paint on the other hand, uses oil as a binder. In Italy during the time of the Renaissance, the most commonly used oil for this purpose was olive oil as it was inexpensive and readily available. However, it had an excessive drying time that was especially tedious in the case of figures. So tedious in fact that it lead a German monk by the name of Theophilus to warn against the use of oil paint recipes including olive oil in the 12th century in his book Schoedula Diversarum Artium.
Among other techniques was the use of a drying oil as a varnish on paintings, such as the technique referred to by 5th century medical writer Aetius Amidenus. In the 8th century, the Japanese mixed lead with Perilla oil, and in the 14th century, Italian artist Cennino Cennini used a painting technique that involved covering tempera paintings with light oily layers.
According to Le vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori e architetori, Firenze, 1550 (Lives of the Artists) by Giorgio Vasari, the oil painting technique was invented –or rather reinvented- in Europe by the well-known Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in or around 1410. He was not the first to use oil painting, but rather was the first to make use of a stable varnishing utilizing siccative oil, namely linseed. Walnut oil and poppy seed oil were also in use, but were not as quick-drying as linseed oil. These oils allowed for much faster drying of paint on canvas under the sun. Jan van Eyck kept his secret until about 1440, a year before his death.
After van Eyck, several painters made improvements on the formula, such as Antonella De Massina (1430-1479), Michelangelo, Da Vinci (1452-1519) and Titian (1488-1576) among others. These secrets remained in Italy throughout much of the Renaissance, thus creating the supremacy among Italian Renaissance paintings.
Today, linseed oil is still the preferred oil in the creation of oil paintings, and can be easily made at home.
About the Author:
Michella M. Ames for http://www.anythingpaintedoncanvas.com
This method of paint creation, as with so much ancient technology, was lost in the intervening years, the final blow to paint creation likely being the fall of Rome. Thereafter the encaustic paint was replaced by oil or tempera paints.
Tempera paint is a mixture of an organic binder such as whole eggs or animal glue, water, and vegetal essential oils. It has a thinner consistency than oil paint and dries much quicker.
Oil paint on the other hand, uses oil as a binder. In Italy during the time of the Renaissance, the most commonly used oil for this purpose was olive oil as it was inexpensive and readily available. However, it had an excessive drying time that was especially tedious in the case of figures. So tedious in fact that it lead a German monk by the name of Theophilus to warn against the use of oil paint recipes including olive oil in the 12th century in his book Schoedula Diversarum Artium.
Among other techniques was the use of a drying oil as a varnish on paintings, such as the technique referred to by 5th century medical writer Aetius Amidenus. In the 8th century, the Japanese mixed lead with Perilla oil, and in the 14th century, Italian artist Cennino Cennini used a painting technique that involved covering tempera paintings with light oily layers.
According to Le vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori e architetori, Firenze, 1550 (Lives of the Artists) by Giorgio Vasari, the oil painting technique was invented –or rather reinvented- in Europe by the well-known Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in or around 1410. He was not the first to use oil painting, but rather was the first to make use of a stable varnishing utilizing siccative oil, namely linseed. Walnut oil and poppy seed oil were also in use, but were not as quick-drying as linseed oil. These oils allowed for much faster drying of paint on canvas under the sun. Jan van Eyck kept his secret until about 1440, a year before his death.
After van Eyck, several painters made improvements on the formula, such as Antonella De Massina (1430-1479), Michelangelo, Da Vinci (1452-1519) and Titian (1488-1576) among others. These secrets remained in Italy throughout much of the Renaissance, thus creating the supremacy among Italian Renaissance paintings.
Today, linseed oil is still the preferred oil in the creation of oil paintings, and can be easily made at home.
About the Author:
Michella M. Ames for http://www.anythingpaintedoncanvas.com
Friday, December 21, 2007
Stainless Steel Painting Knife
An outstanding value in a quality set of essential oil painting tools for artists of all skill levels. Useful around home and shop of lots of other uses
for details see here
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Watco Marine Teak Oil Quart
Teak Oil Finish Take all the ease of application, penetrating protection and hand-rubbed beauty of WATCO Danish Oil Finish and add exterior durability and UV protection. The result is the unmatched quality of WATCO Teak Oil Finish. Specifically formulated for dense woods such as teak, it is a penetrating oil finish which will never hide the natural look and feel of the wood.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Georges Seurat: The Drawings
Once described as "the most beautiful painter's drawings in existence," Georges Seurat's mysterious and luminous works on paper played a crucial role in his short, vibrant career. This comprehensive publication surveys the artist's entire oeuvre, from his academic training and the emergence of his unique methods to the studies made for his monumental canvases.
Accompanying the first exhibition in almost 25 years to focus exclusively on Seurat's drawings, this volume presents approximately 130 works, primarily the artist's incomparable conte drawings along with a small selection of oil sketches and paintings. In an effort to bridge the seemingly opposite goals of description and evocation, Seurat masses dark and light tones to abstract figures, exploits medium and paper to amplify radiating light, and engages with the Parisian metropolis, revealing urban types, the industrial suburbs and nineteenth-century entertainment. Though Seurat is perhaps best known as the inventor of Pointillism, this volume demonstrates his tremendous achievement as a draftsman and his fundamental importance to the art of the twentieth century. It includes carefully selected details of the work, as well as reproductions from pages of Seurat's sketchbooks, which have never before been published. Texts by Jodi Hauptman, Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch, Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff and Richard Thomson address specific aspects of Seurat's techniques, materials, and subject matter. They are rounded out by a chronology, a selected bibliography and a detailed checklist.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Salvador Dali Le Sommeil - Sleep - Fine Art Surrealist Painting Large Mousepad
This is a gorgeous fine art mousepad, featuring Salvador Dali's "Sleep" (Le Sommeil in French) surrealism painting, that makes a perfect gift for any occasion--or a great addition to your own computer! Why settle for that boring old plain mousepad when you spend so much time at your computer?
This designer-style fine art mousepad is just the thing to bring a smile to your face and add a special touch to your day. This rectangular mousepad is made of a durable heat-resistant polyester fabric top, will keep your mouse rolling in high style. Backed with a neoprene rubber non-slip backing, this mousepad won't slip or slide. It will not discolor or fade, and is even machine washable.
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