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December 8, 2007

Decorating Living Room

Filed under: Arts — bruce @ 8:49 pm
Oil paintings bring elegance and adds ambience to overall looks. Although not all canvas arts are considered well until you find them matching your requirements. Many people buy these paintings as part of their hobby and many other can’t even afford. But then those who can’t afford can certainly look at these expensive masterpieces and can get to a workaround.

Art reproduction technique is very complicated and challenging technique which must be handled only by experienced and expert artists who can jot down entire painting of your choice in a superior quality oil painting form, surfaced in either a canvas or wooden panel or cardboard etc. All the paintings that begin on a canvas are being stretched to fit across the wooden frame with a gesso layer to remove any acidic properties of the oil paints used. Next things is the pigment mixed with oils like linseed, walnut, safflower, poppy seed etc, is applied to generate lots of different effects in the painting. One can see and feel major effects when tube paints are used.

Since historical or ancient antique paintings are so expensive that more and more artists are reproducing them into oil paintings which are sold easily without any problem and has a greater scope of audience in the buying criteria. Masterpieces like the Vincent Van Gogh paintings or Leonardo da Vinci or Paul Gauguin paintings are still considered as the most expensive paintings of all times and are now available in the market with the use of oil painting reproduction technique.

Oil paintings, such as Monet paintings, have made is possible to have such rear paintings available at an affordable price for home decorating or even for your office adding brisk looks and glitter which is always appreciated.

February 15, 2007

How to Draw a Caricature–Step by Step

Filed under: Uncategorized, Arts — bruce @ 3:27 pm

In order to draw a caricature, the first step is to study faces. You need to study as many faces as you possibly can. You need to study them in photographs and you need to study them in real life. You should try to visualize those features that make the face unique. In other words, since you are going to capture the essence by exaggerating certain feature, you need to understand just what the essence is. The basic rule of this stage is that you are going to maximize the features of the face that are maximized in the subject, and minimize the features of the face that are minimized in the in subject. If the subject has small eyes, for instance, and you draw the eyes very large, you may make a cartoon looking image, but you will not have captured the essence. It will also be unidentifiable.Proper equipment is important, and the next step is to make sure you have what you need. A good place to start when learning is with pencil. Avoid #2 pencils and look for 4B or 5B pencils instead. The 5B pencil makes a thick and black line. The caricature is going to have a certain cartoony look to it, and the thick black lines will help accomplish this. Then draw the subject much as you would a regular portrait, but using bold and exaggerated lines and a minimum of shadowing.

You are going to be maximizing the dominant feature that captures the essence of the subject. You should be able to determine what that is from your study of the face. It could be a large nose, large forehead, or a big smile. It could also be a small ears or a weak chin. Your caricature drawing should reflect this dominant feature. If you are seeking more of a cartoon caricature, merely do a bit more exaggerating of that essential feature. Like any art form, caricature takes practice, and when you feel you have practiced as much as you can, the next step is to practice a little bit more.

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