Sunday, July 12, 2020
10 types of art brushes to paint canvas
If you are a painter paintbrushes are your hands. It is just like a magic wand that can create anything which is stuffed inside your brains. What you need to know is how to use and what to use and the purpose to use. You many times can't decide which brush should I choose and which not. If we talk about painting acrylics on canvas, there are varieties of brushes. Which brush you should choose completely depends on your work. Some types of brushes are given below have a look.
Round Brush
It is used with thin paint not with thick paint. It can be used to fill small areas, to outline, and give details to yur sketch . The best thing with this brush is it can spread and become wider when pressed on canvas and hence can be used to fill thin color perfectly.
Pointed Brushes
It has a very fine and pointed tip. Perfect to give very sharp details like in eyes and in delicate areas.Best spotting and retouching.
Flat Brushes
Best for filling wide space areas. Give bold strokes. Good for varnishing.
Filbert Brush
Flat and oval-shaped end with medium to long hairs.
Good for: blending, soft rounded edges like flower petals. this brush is sort of a combination of the rounds (because they can be used for detail) and flat (because they can cover more space than round).
Fan Brush
Flat, spread hairs.
good for: natural hairs are good for smoothing, blending, and feathering. synthetic hairs are better for textural effects, clouds, and leaves on trees. for acrylics, use strong and sturdy one, otherwise, the hairs will clump when paint is added.
Angular Brush
Flat with angled hairs at end.
Good for: curved strokes and filling corners. can reach small areas with tip. also can be used to cover lots of space, similar to flat brushes.
10 Amazing Art Hacks And Tips
1. Blowoff your painting with crayons
Are you wasting your broken crayons and
think them useless then you are wrong.
You guys must have a pouch full of broken crayons use them and
draw.
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Bring some broken crayons.
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Turn on your gas stove and put a pan on.
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Separate your crayons as per the shades.
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One by one start melting your crayons and store
the melts in any tiny container cool it and then use.
2. Don’t waste your cotton buds
You can use your cotton buds to dub paint on
canvas like on trees, clouds, flowers etc.
3. Use your expired makeup kit items
Thinking of throwing your expired lip liners,
eyeliners, lipsticks, eyeshadows and mascaras. Stop. Here are some stunning art
hacks to make your work look beautiful.
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Use your eyeliners as a figure or shape
outliners. You don’t even need a brush just use your eyeliner’s brush and
outline any shapes and drawing. Eyeliner’s brushes are very fine and sharp use
can use them to draw thin lines and curves.
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Use your lip liners as a color pencil. The texture of the lip liner will help you to draw and fill color very perfectly. They are of very soft texture and
blend very easily giving a wonderful look to your artworks.
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Lipstick can also be used in place of crayons.
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Mascara brush is a wonderful choice if you want
to create some random shapes and backgrounds.
4. Smart toothbrushes
Want to create spray painting but don’t have spraying color cans. Use your toothbrushes to create a spray painting.
Bring a toothbrush and dip it into the color of
your choice. Colour consistency should not be very thick use water to get a
perfect consistency. Now swipe your fingers on the brush by turning the
bristles down over paper and start spraying.
5. Cotton is star
Do you have a lack of brushes? Don’t worry.
You can use your home's most suitable guy cotton in place of brushes. Take
a thin stick. Bring some pieces of cotton and wrap it over the tip of stick perfectly
and then use it to apply color on your painting. You can use this to give
clouds of your painting a perfect look and texture.
The tape is your best buddy
There are many different ways to use tape that will help you to enhance and create new effects in your painting. If you want to add the border with crisp, clean, and perfect lines and special designs then the tape is perfect and the best option to use. Its time to show your creativity with tape.
Sponges
They are the perfect option to create foliage. You can use them to make trees and enhance the normal boring tree by adding some realistic effects.
Don't use graphite to make your sketch prior to painting watercolor
If you are making your sketches for watercolor painting with graphite pencil then you should stop. Always use watercolor pencils for roughing in a sketch. The use of graphite is not a good option for watercolor painting because graphite is not water-soluble and will ultimately show up as traces of sketch. The watercolor pencil is water-soluble and it will dissolve into the watercolor perfectly giving an enhanced and perfect look to your panting.
Blending charcoal
If you're using charcoal in your sketch it becomes very important to blend the charcoal perfectly to give realistic appearance to your panting.
here are some ways that can be used to blend charcoal perfectly
Brushes
use your brush on applied charcoal to blend and smooth out the grainy look of applied charcoal in the painting it perfectly.
Cotton and tissue
You can use cotton and tissue to blend large areas of your panting in a circular motion.
blending stump
If are facing difficulties in giving small and sharp details to your sketch than blending stump is perfect to use. Use it in a circular motion or you can swipe it to give a perfect stroke.
Want to give a shiny appearance to your painting
Don't have oils paints and acrylic. No worries still you can give a shiny and glancing look to your painting. What you need is just a tube of some adhesive. Yes, you can use it to give a shiny appearance to any painting of your choice. Take out some adhesive from the tube and apply a thin layer using a brush carefully. Make sure that before applying painting should be dry.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
10 most amazing and iconic arts pieces
Thomas Merton-“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves
at the same time.”
He said it right before creating any art pieces you are not, in reality, making or drawing something, you are expressing the feeling which was kept inside you and then you explore yourself. Sometimes you try to understand the meaning of art and steadily you lose yourself inside the captive beauty of the creation. Everyone says that no one is born as a genius, but to be an artist this saying is wrong, to be reflected as a good artist you have to have inborn imaginativeness, creativeness, vision, and innovativeness. This express, you are just like a little bud that will soon be seen as a perfectly grown beautiful flower. To be a good artist is not in your hand, I have no intention to demotivate you but I think this is the reality, nobody can teach you how to become a good artist, yes, of course, you can learn some principles and ways to draw anatomy, characters, painting etcetera. But, unfortunately, it will not help you to be called an artist because the artist is not what you guys might think of, the artist is not a person who will be taught by anyone. He is born as a creator. He is an expresser. He is a viewer having a different perspective, in fact, to understand the feeling or emotion which is expressed in any art piece you yourself need to have a perspective of maker only then you will understand what feelings and emotions the artist is trying to express. So if you say you are an art lover then don’t take it lightly and if you consider yourself an art lover then you are unquestionable can be an artist also. What you need to do is trying to find yourself and with gathering some courage bring a brush and just draw anything and express the things in your own way what you are just courage.
Here we will see most amazing, meaningful and iconic artworks of great artists.
Yes you are right I am going first going to tell you about Mona Lisa actually, I bet it will be the first piece that came in your minds. This is what we call popularity and how great art play with our mind nothing could be the best example.
So let's start.
1.Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
You guys might be thinking, why whenever we talk about best artwork this always come at the top, here are some facts that you should know why this is wildly popular among us. If you are thinking where you can the original art piece it is in Louvre Museum (Paris).This lady who is sitting having a mysterious smile was Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Florence merchant Francesco del Giocondo, This was not created with the vision of creating some meaningful art but it is a portrait which was first installed in 1804. Now people find this painting very secretive and mysterious and as you all know the beauty always stays in the viewer’s eye and that is why we as viewers look it as our own perspective. This painting is painted as oil on wood and it is owned by the government of France. This is very expensive and was stolen many times.
Price: $850 million (estimated)
2.The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
The Starry Night was created on 18 June 1889. It was said that Van Gogh painted this painting in the asylum in which he was admitted because of mutilation in the ear. The asylum was of Saint-paul-de–mausolea. He used the ground floor as his art studio but it was considered as the starry night is the painting that was drawn by looking from the window facing east. Some people say this was created from memory. The Moon is stylized, as astronomical records indicate that it actually was waning gibbous at the time Van Gogh painted the picture, It was installed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Price: 100 million dollars( estimated)
3. Girl with a pearl earring by Johannes Vermeer
Price: 10.62 million dollars
4.The Last supper by Leonardo Da Vinci
5.The persistence of memory by Salvador Dali
Dali created this famous work in 1931The meaning which is depicted in this painting is very hard to understand. This refers to the thoughts that Dali got in his dream. The clocks here represents the way time passes when we are in a dream while sleeping. It shows the persistence of time in everyone's life. There you can the watches look like they are melting in the sun this represents the time is running. An orange clock with ants over it represents the decaying process. Some say that this painting represents the Einsteins theory of relativity. The idea of this painting is based on subconscious art.
