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Acrylic Painting Tip 1: Keeping Acrylic Paints Workable
Because acrylics dry so fast, squeeze only a little paint out of a tube. If you're using a 'normal' plastic palette invest in a spray bottle so you can spray a fine mist over the paint regularly to keep it moist. 'Stay-wet' palettes – where the paint sits on a sheet of wax paper place on top of a damp piece of watercolor paper – eliminate the need to do this, but generally don't have a hole for your thumb so are more awkward to hold in your hand.
Acrylic Painting Tip 2: Blot your Brushes
Keep a piece of paper towel or cloth next to your water jar and get into the habit of wiping your brushes on it after you rinse them. This prevents water drops running down the ferrule and onto your painting, making blotches.
Acrylic Painting Tip 3: Opaque or Transparent
If applied thickly – either straight from the tube or with very little water added – or if mixed with a little white, all acrylic colors can be opaque. If diluted, they can be used like watercolors or for airbrushing.
Acrylic Painting Tip 4: Acrylic vs. Watercolor Washes
When an acrylic wash dries, it's permanent and, unlike a watercolor wash, is insoluble and can be over-painted without fear of disturbing the existing wash. The colors of subsequent washes mix optically with the earlier ones. A watercolor glaze can be lifted out using water and a cloth.
Acrylic Painting Tip 5: Think Thin When Thinking Glazes
If you want transparent glazes, these should be built up in thin layers; a heavy layer will produce a glossy surface.
Acrylic Painting Tip 6: Improve Flow without Losing Color
To increase the flow of a color with minimal loss of color strength, use flow-improver medium rather than just water.
Acrylic Painting Tip 7: Blending Acrylic Paints
Because acrylics dry rapidly, you need to work fast if you wish to blend colors. If you're working on paper, dampening the paper will increase your working time.
Acrylic Painting Tip 8: Hard Edges
Masking tape can be put onto and removed from dried acrylic paint without damaging an existing layer. This makes it easy to produce a hard or sharp edge. Make sure the edges of the tape are stuck down firmly and don't paint too thickly on the edges, otherwise you won't get a clean line when you lift it.
Acrylic Painting Tip 9: Washing-up Liquid with Masking Fluid
Masking fluid can be used with acrylics washes, as well as watercolors. Once masking fluid has dried in a brush, it's nearly impossible to remove. Dipping a brush into some washing-up liquid first makes it easier to wash masking fluid out of a brush.
Acrylic Painting Tip 10: Using Acrylic Paint as a Glue for Collage
Provided it's used fairly thickly and the item to be stuck isn't too heavy, acrylic paint will work as glue in a collage.
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#Task 2:Part 7)Sculpture
Stone sculpture is the result of forming 3-dimensional visually interesting objects from stone.
Carving stone into sculpture is an activity older than civilization itself. Prehistoric sculptures were usually human forms, such as the Venus of Willendorfand the faceless statues of theCycladic cultures of ancient Greece. Later cultures devised animal, human-animal andabstract forms in stone. The earliest cultures used abrasive techniques, and modern technology employs pneumatic hammers and other devices. But for most of human history, sculptors used hammer andchisel as the basic tools for carving stone.
The work begins with the selection of a stone for carving. The artist may carve in the direct way, by carving without a model, creating a form or figure from scratch, with only the idea in his mind as a guideline, sketching on the block of stone and developing the work along the way. This method can be inspiring but can also present major problems when too much stone is removed in previous stages.
Or the sculptor may begin with a clearly defined model to be copied in stone. Frequently the sculptor would begin by forming a model in clay or wax, and then copying this in stone by measuring with calipers or apointing machine. This method leaves much less chance for error, so the desired result can be achieved as expected. This method is also used when the carving is done by other sculptors, such as artisans or employees of the sculptor.
Some artists use the stone itself as inspiration; the Renaissanceartist Michelangelo claimed that his job was to free the human form trapped inside the block.
When he or she is ready to carve, the carver usually begins by knocking off, or "pitching", large portions of unwanted stone. For this task he may select a point chisel, which is a long, hefty piece of steel with a point at one end and a broad striking surface at the other. A pitching tool may also be used at this early stage; which is a wedge-shaped chisel with a broad, flat edge. The pitching tool is useful for splitting the stone and removing large, unwanted chunks. The sculptor also selects a mallet, which is often a hammer with a broad, barrel-shaped head.
along the tool, shattering the stone. Most sculptors work rhythmically, turning the tool with each blow so that the stone is removed quickly and evenly. This is the “roughing out” stage of the sculpting process.
Once the general shape of the statue has been determined, the sculptor uses other tools to refine the figure. A toothed chisel or claw chisel has multiple gouging surfaces which create parallel lines in the stone. These tools are generally used to add texture to the figure. An artist might mark out specific lines by using calipers to measure an area of stone to be addressed, and marking the removal area with pencil, charcoal or chalk. The stone carver generally uses a shallower stroke at this point in the process.
Eventually the sculptor has changed the stone from a rough block into the general shape of the finished statue. Tools called rasps and rifflers are then used to enhance the shape into its final form. A rasp is a flat, steel tool with a coarse surface. The sculptor uses broad, sweeping strokes to remove excess stone as small chips or dust. A riffler is a smaller variation of the rasp, which can be used to create details such as folds of clothing or locks of hair.
The final stage of the carving process is polishing. Sandpaper can be used as a first step in the polishing process, or sand cloth. Emery, a stone that is harder and rougher than the sculpture media, is also used in the finishing process. This abrading, or wearing away, brings out the color of the stone, reveals patterns in the surface and adds a sheen. Tin and iron oxides are often used to give the stone a highly reflective exterior.
a stone sculptor carving an angel. (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stonemasonry1.jpg)
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Exhibit #1-Tribute to Mother
This painting depicts my mother’s tender love for me.
The lily pad represents my mother.
The flower represents my mother’s gentle love for me.
The heart in the middle of the flower represents me.
The rippling water (blue area) around the lily pad represents problems that my mother and I encounter.
Despite the problems we face, our love for each other never dies. She protects me despite the problems she might face. She sacrifices herself for me. Thus, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my mother.
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the bowl represent the trust that my mother have given to me.
the eye and tears represent the sadness and toughness that my mother has gone through to give me the trust
the heart represent the pain that my mum had while sacrificing her own life for my sake.
the filled up background represent the the wramth that i have recieve is factural although it is not perfect
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#Task 2:Part 3)This is a picture which is a form of impressionism.(picture taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/File:Claude_Monet,_Impression,_soleil_levant,_1872.jpg
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.
Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. The emergence of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous movements in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.
Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period.
Overview
Radicals in their time, early Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting. They began by giving colours, freely brushed, primacy over line, drawing inspiration from the work of painters such as Eugène Delacroix. They also took the act of painting out of the studio and into the modern world. Previously, still lifes and portraits as well as landscapes had usually been painted indoors. The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting en plein air. Painting realistic scenes of modern life, they portrayed overall visual effects instead of details. They used short "broken" brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colour, not smoothly blended or shaded, as was customary, in order to achieve the effect of intense colour vibration.
Although the rise of Impressionism in France happened at a time when a number of other painters, including the Italian artists known as the Macchiaioli, and Winslow Homer in the United States, were also exploring plein-air painting, the Impressionists developed new techniques that were specific to the movement. Encompassing what its adherents argued was a different way of seeing, it was an art of immediacy and movement, of candid poses and compositions, of the play of light expressed in a bright and varied use of colour.
The public, at first hostile, gradually came to believe that the Impressionists had captured a fresh and original vision, even if it did not receive the approval of the art critics and establishment.
By re-creating the sensation in the eye that views the subject, rather than recreating the subject, and by creating a welter of techniques and forms, Impressionism became a precursor seminal to various movements in painting which would follow, including Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism.
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This is a picture which is a form of symbolism.(picture taken from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Death_of_the_Grave_Digger.jpg)
Origin:
Symbolism was largely a reaction against naturalism and realism, anti-idealistic movements which attempted to capture reality in its gritty particularity, and to elevate the humble and the ordinary over the ideal. These movements invited a reaction in favour of spirituality, the imagination, and dreams; the path to symbolism began with that reaction. Some writers, such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, began as naturalists before moving in the direction of symbolism; for Huysmans, this change reflected his awakening interest in religion and spirituality. On the other hand, certain of the characteristic subjects of the decadents reflect naturalist interest in sexuality and taboo subjects, but in their case this was mixed with a stiff dose of Byronic romanticism and the world-weariness characteristic of the fin de siècle.
The symbolist poets have a more complex relationship with Parnassianism, a French literary movement that immediately preceded it. While moving in the direction of hermeticism, allowing freer versification, and rejecting Parnassian clarity and objectivity, it retained Parnassianism's love of word play and concern for the musical qualities of verse. The symbolists continued to admire Théophile Gautier's motto of "art for art's sake," and retained — and modified — Parnassianism's mood of ironic detachment. Many symbolist poets, including Stephane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine, published early works in Le Parnasse contemporain, the poetry anthologies that gave Parnassianism its name. But Arthur Rimbaud publicly mocked prominent Parnassians, and published scatological parodies of some of their leading lights.
Techniques
The symbolist poets wished to liberate techniques of versification in order to allow greater room for "fluidity", and as such were aligned with the movement towards free verse, a direction evident in the poems of Gustav Khan and Ezra Pound. Symbolist poems sought to evoke, rather than to describe; symbolic imagery was used to signify the state of the poet's soul. Synthesia was a prized experience; poets sought to identify and confound the separate senses of scent, sound, and colour. In Baudelaire's poem Correspondences, which also speaks tellingly of forests of symbols.Labels: Shafraaz(32)
Definitions of Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Rhyme, Rhythm A simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the words "like", "as", or "than". A metaphor is an analogy between two objects or ideas, conveyed by the use of a word instead of another. Personification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person. A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs. A rhythm is the patterned, recurring alternations of contrasting elements of sound or speech.
Watercolour painting tips:
watercolorpainting.com/watercolorpainting/flatwash.htm
| In the beginning... Draw a square or rectangle on your paper, or visualize the boundaries of such as you go. Select a darker hue for your wash. Charge your brush with paint, and starting in the upper left corner touch your brush to the paper and gently pull a straight line of paint to the upper right corner. Make your second stroke | |
| Return to your palette and refill your brush. TIP 1: If the flood of the first stroke doesn't fully flow into the new stroke, increase the angle of your board to aid the flow of the wash. | |
| Repeat as necessary… Refill brush and continue overlapping strokes, riding the flow of the paint and keeping an even tone as you go.
Rinse your brush out in clean water and squeeze out the excess water. Let the wash dry. TIP 7: Try practicing your flat washes with different colors and intensities. Each color has it's own physical properties that affect how they feel and flow in washes. TIP 8: For a pronounced texture in your wash let it dry at an angle. The pigment will settle out in the texture of the paper. |
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As busy as a bee,
You've no time for tea.
As bright as a new pin,
Shining like the polished tin,
You made the whole house clean.
As slow as a snail,
Even though i fail,
You taught me all till
I know,I understand,I remember.
As happy as a lark,
You brought me to the park,
and a dog started to bark
when the sky turns dark.
As timid as a rabbit,
I started to cry,
You comforted me, I stopped immediately,
Soon,it became a habit.
You gave me unconditional love,
that i couldn't find anywhere, even above.
Your sacrifice, love, tears & devotion
are all my potions.
Your heart, your mind, your energy and soul
are just a whole.
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you told me lies.
lies of hope,
lies of wish.
though lies are what you gave,
trust is what i crave.
in my heart,
you gave me trust.
trust in me,
trust in us.
you gave me the trust i want.
trust is here,
lies is lost.
you are like a bowl of rice,
filled with flaws.
grains of full,
grains of half.
grains that are soft,
grains that are hard.
but in total,
u gave me warmth through your sweat, tears and blood.
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My Mother Is Here
Through The Thick And Thin
She Always Leaves A Hint
Bubbles Of Love Radiating From Her Do Not Pop
So That Our Tears Would Not Drop
For All The Love
In This Cosy Cove
So Here's A Poem
To Show My Gratitude
For Your Lovely Attitude!!!
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