Painter – Part 1
December 7, 2009 by Portrait Painter
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Painting is a form of art and the person who makes the painting is called a Painter.
Painter can be of many types each depending on the type of painting he makes
Painter is also known as artist and holds a respectful position in our society.
We also call a person who paints our houses or buildings as a Painter
A painter is a person who applies an emulsion called paint to a surface.
A painter makes painting and sells his work at art and painting exhibitions.
So many Painters have come and gone but very few of them have been successful.
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Pablo Picasso are known for their art work and each one is a world famous Painter.
Painting is the profession of the Painter and it is by his paintings that a painter earns his bread and milk.
Painter Leonardo da Vinci is globally famous Painter and his art works like Mona Lisa and the Last supper are phenomenal.
There has been Painter even in pre historic world as earlier people used to make symbols and draw things to communicate.
A Painter can make landscape painting, portrait painting and still life and real life paintings.
A landscape Painter makes an outdoor scene and paints the nature which has land, water, clouds, wind and sunlight.
A portrait Painter basically makes the image of a person or animals and the portrait Painter can also capture the mood of the model.
A still life Painter paints things like flowers, food, or musical instruments.
A real life Painter can show a busy street, party, gatherings or anyplace where there is life
A religious Painter paints and tries to give out religious message to the audience.
Greece is one country which has the history of having well rather the best Painter.
Greek Painter, El Greco is famous for his unusual wall paintings and was a greatest painter.
There are many drawing or painting schools which offer painting trainings to a Painter.
Theodoros Vryzakis is a Painter who is known for his paintings which depicted Greek life.
Each Painter has his own style of painting and his own way to use the colors and the brushes.
A modern art Painter is someone who is known for his bizarre paintings.
In India there have been many painters but Raja Ravi Varma is said to be a unique painter who become a world famous painter.
If you are planning to become a painter then you need to get training from good Art colleges.
Painting is such a filed which not only gives the Painter money but also a glamorized world.
Painter like M.F Hussain has really made a mark in the world of art.
A painter is just like a Fashion designer who exhibits his work not at a fashion show but at an Art Exhibition.
A good painter need not be an aged person even a child can become a famous painter.
If your child wants to become a Painter then you should always support his dream.
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One of India’s famous painter is Sudhir Patwardhan who a famous contemporary Painter.
A Painter is creative person who has the ability to draw or paint what he sees.
One can get a good Painter for making paintings which he can put up at his home.
In early days when there was no camera it was through paintings that a Painter could capture a moment.
Many people call a Painter to make their family portrait as it looks more elegant and stylish.
In India it is mostly the Bengalis who are good Painters as they are more creative.
Painter has the ability to stop the time by capturing it on his canvas.
A Painter can charge very high prices for his paintings so now days it’s the trend for the elite class to buy paintings.
Painter uses several things like a brush, paint colors, and a canvas sheet to draw his paintings.
Painter who paint our houses should use good quality paints as its our house what we are giving him to paint.
How Your Oil Paintings Can Flower
October 12, 2009 by Portrait Painter
Filed under Landscapes
When you are producing flower landscape oil paintings, keep in mind the short canvas blend life of oil paints. If you are producing an oil painting of a flower landscape and you need to make a change that isn’t immediately effective, the best thing to do is wipe it off with your paint rag and start over. This will work for the first 24 hours after your painting, as oil paintings take this long to dry. In fact, it’s important not to make too thick a first coat or you’ll never get your oil paints to dry.
One important piece of oil painting advice is to clean your paint brushes each time you change colors. You do this by first wiping as much paint off the brush with a rag as you possibly can and then inserting the brush into the paint thinner. Not only will this get more oil paints off your brush, but will extend the life of your thinner as well. Swish your paint brush around in the container of paint thinner, then dry it with your clean paint rag.
When the first layer of your flower landscape oil painting creation is finished, wait 48 hours before you start on your second paint application or you’re going to end up smearing the work you already did. In the meantime don’t leave your oil painting somewhere hot or humid. Make sure that its location will protect it from getting accidently scraped, smooshed, smeared, or touched at all.
Should you have a lot of paint left on the palette and you want to use it when you start your flower landscape oil paintings again, scrape the paint together with your knife. Next put a small amount of paint thinner on a cleam paint rage and use it to clean the rest of your paint palette. Plastic wrap is great for covering the paint that is leftover. Make sure you wrap it tightly though.
It’s important as well, that until you start again with your flower landscape oil paintings, that you replace the lid on the container of paint thinner and set it aside, no matter how cloudy it looks. The paint thinner will settle and the pigment that is part of the paint will drop to the bottom of the container.
Clean thinner will settle at the top. The next time you go back to your flower landscape oil paintings you’ll only need to pour that top layer of clean paint thinner into a new and clean thinner container, and wipe the pigment off the bottom. You then pour the good paint thinner back into its original thinner container and you’re ready to start your flower landscape oil painting project once again.
Landscape Painting Tips For Watercolor Artists
September 30, 2009 by Portrait Painter
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One of the biggest challenges beginners face with any type of art, is the ability to really connect with the creativity that is inside of them. It’s difficult in the beginning to just let go and paint from your heart and soul. Your mind is being filled with techniques and systems for approaching painting, which in my opinion, tends to drown out your inner creativity. Learning techniques is essential, but there should be a point where you begin to draw from your own creative imagination.
When painting a subject, whether it is a person or a landscape, it is important to first observe your subject. You have to get close and personal to what you are painting. If you want to learn how to paint great landscapes, then you should spend time near the area that inspires you to paint in the first place. Only then can you really understand how to transfer what it is you see to canvas.
Take a ride out to the area you wish to paint. Bring along some pencils and paper. The best way to become really intimate with the scene is to just spend time there doing some sketches. This will really force you to observe what you see and burn the image and the environment into your senses.
Painting with watercolor on location is quite challenging, especially if you are a beginner. The scene is constantly changing. There are certain techniques in watercolor that require the paper to be at certain angles, or the paper needs to be saturated to a certain degree, etc. To get everything right within such a short time span is quite difficult, which is why you should bring a camera in the event you are not able to capture the scene. Once you find a composition that you like, take a bunch of shots at different distances and angles. When you get back to your studio, you will now have a few reference sketches as well as a bunch of great photos to work with. In the beginning, while painting on location, try to choose compositions that are not overly detailed or complex.
One of the best ways to immerse your self in watercolor landscape painting is to find people with the same passion. Search online for any groups or websites for landscape painters in your area. Start chatting and get to know everyone. Many of the artists in these groups love to connect with other artists and plan painting trips. This is a really great way to gain experience.
You do not need to bring your entire studio with you when painting on location. Many beginners will bring far too many supplies, which becomes more of a nuisance than help. Only bring the colors and supplies that you really need to work on a particular scene.
Remember, things change very quickly outdoors. Lighting conditions and weather can change in a matter of minutes. You must be able to paint quickly without being too sloppy. Block in all of your large areas first then go back and start adding your details.
Many landscape artists usually block in the sky area first. The sky is generally paler than the rest of the painting, which enables you to work from light to dark. The sky area also influences the way you paint the rest of the objects in your painting.
When painting objects in the foreground that require great detail, do not try and paint every single leaf or blade of grass that you see. This will usually create too much detail that will draw focus away from the center of interest in your painting. It is also far too time consuming if you plan on painting on location. Besides, a painting is not meant to be an exact replica of what you see, rather your unique impression of the scene. If you want exact details, you are better off taking a photograph.
Don’t be afraid to use your imagination. If you are painting a scene and feel that you should add a few trees here, or a bush there, or a bird on a branch, then by all means go for it.
If you find one particular location appealing, and have already painted there once before, don’t hesitate to go back and paint it again, only this time go out on a cloudy day instead. You will be surprised how different a scene can look when the weather changes.
I hope these watercolor painting tips have helped. If you ever find yourself getting discouraged or frustrated by your progress, don’t give up. Instead, welcome and learn from your mistakes. It will make you a much better painter.
Landscape Paintings : Presenting Nature’s Beauty
June 30, 2009 by Portrait Painter
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Landscape Painting is a distinct genre of painting that captures nature in its natural form. The paintings are reflections of the skies, seas, rivers, sun, moon and greeneries on the canvas. One of the earliest and traditional painting forms, landscape paintings touch the heart of the modern art lovers with all their purity, naturalness and aestheticism.
Visual documents of the panorama of nature the paintings with their timeless appeal have grown over the years as inspirations to the generations of artists. Landscape paintings from India are famous for representation of wilderness and unspoiled beauties of nature.
The word landscape originates from the Dutch word “landschap” denoting areas of arable lands. Depicting natural sceneries in a medley of lines, colors and tones was the outcome of the natural inclinations of human beings to reflect what they mostly found around them.
The early civilizations with less industrialization and urbanization presented nature in its complete bounties. Artists and poets admired them in their creations. Life was not at all complex and it was only nature and its diverse facets that formed the central theme of the paintings.
Landscape painting in its antiquated form can be observed in the pastoral sceneries of the Roman times. The paintings gained prominence with the emergence of Renaissance Art. Nature was romanticized and portrayed as philosophical and spiritual elements. Various religious and mythological events were represented via nature. Though the spiritual tones were absent in the Reformation times the paintings became more uniform and realistic in this era.
The seventeenth and eighteenth century led to the flourish of the paintings with some master artists like Watteau, Gainsborough and Thoams Girtin. The breathtaking creations reached their acme in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Various movements of arts like abstract expressionism, impressionism and surrealism influenced the painting and brought in some new styles and techniques.
Nature was observed scientifically and more importance was given to its hostile aspects. In the modern and postmodern landscapes nature is synchronized with human psychologies and complexities of life. The various facets of nature resemble the moods of human beings in manifolds.
Landscape paintings have several classifications. The skyscape paintings depict clouds, skies and weather conditions. Moon is aesthetically represented in moonscape paintings. The rivers and seas find visible expression in seascapes and riverscapes.
The images of urban landscapes, industrialized cities, towns and streets are carved in cityscapes and hardscapes. The aerial landscapes offer an aerial view of the objects in the ground. Inscapes are visual images of the psychoanalytical mind as a three-dimensional space.
Roberto Matta, Ajmes Gleeson and Jane Farnk are the specialists in inscape paintings. Various innovations and experiments with the landscape paintings are still going on. The paintings with all their connotations and aestheticisms are a connoisseur’s delight and a prized legacy of art.
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My Dabble Into Landscape Painting
May 26, 2009 by Portrait Painter
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My dabble into landscape painting showed me how fun it can be to be creative.
When I was a small child, I would rise at the first sign of dawn. I would not sleep past six, even when my parents begged and pleaded with me to just sleep a little longer. After they came to the conclusion that my internal clock was on its own time schedule, they decided that I could go ahead and get up as long as I quietly watched television. This sounded good, but in reality, there was really nothing on at six on a Sunday morning. One morning, though, I came across a show with a strange French guy who was painting landscapes with oil paints.
I began watching this show, simply because it was a little more interesting than watching church programming or infomercials. Eventually, though, I began to find that I was enjoying watching this man paint his beautiful landscape paintings. His smooth voice and strokes would quickly create trees and streams, simply by moving his brush across the canvas. He made it look so simple and easy, so I thought that I could create some landscape paintings myself. My paintings would have to be in crayon, however, since that was the only art tool that I had access to.
Thus began my habit. Each Sunday morning, I would wake at six and begin watching the landscape painting show. I would try to replicate what he was painting on the screen, while sitting on our couch. My crayons and drawing paper created some attractive pictures, but there were nothing compared to the landscape painter’s work. I came to the conclusion that I needed oil paints to make my paintings as beautiful as his.
I could not buy oil paints myself, since I was only seven years old, and my parents wouldn’t purchase them for me either. That is when I decided that I would just have to be creative. The only place that I could think of where I could locate some painting tools was in my mom’s makeup case. I used an old box as my pallet and then used the creamy makeup to make my paint by mixing them together. I used lipstick, blush, eyeshadow, and anything else that I could find to create my palette of colors. A blush brush was my paintbrush, an eyelash separator my tool for shading effects, and construction paper was my canvas. I was ready to create my masterpiece.
As I am sure that you guessed, my landscape painting using makeup only lasted that one Sunday. After my mom saw the mess I had made of her makeup, I was told that I couldn’t paint anymore. This put an end to my idea of using food the next time to create my palette. After a while, I quit watching the French painter. It had become too difficult to simply watch him when I was unable to create my own masterpiece. That was my dabble into landscape painting.
Creating Distance in a Landscape Oil Painting
May 24, 2009 by Portrait Painter
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Keeping interest in a painting is important. One of the best ways to do this in a landscape painting is to create distance. The first thing to remember is the farther away something is the less detail it will have. also it will be lighter in color than something closer.
Step 1: Mix the colors. the first colors you should mix are light or grey in color. Start with pure white with a small amount of black. be sure to use a small amount of black as it tends to overpower the white very easily. Now you have a choice to make. You can use this grey by itself or add some color to it. Remember grey is not only white and black but grey also has color. For a spring scene try adding some blue with a tint of green. Keep it on the bluish side. For summer scenes add more green. For fall scenes a plain grey or tan would be nice. Winter scenes can use a multitude of different colors. Blue, grey, violet to name a few.
Step 2: apply these colors to create either foothills or distant trees and shrubs. Remember not to add allot of detail. In fact the more out of focus the better. Now as you come closer in the painting the more color you can add.
Step 3: Another trick to create distance and to separate different plains is to take either pure white or the pure grey mixture on the brush and tap this at the base of the trees or foothills you created. This creates dew or mist. You can swirl this grey color at the base also to create the illusion of a low cloud like at the base of a mountain.
Remember distance in a painting can help keep it interesting and allows people to imagine.
Oil Painting as Interior Decoration
May 4, 2009 by Portrait Painter
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Oil Painting As Interior Decoration The art is a beautiful inspiration. Oil paintings are not the exception. Many of the most famous paintings are reproduced in this technique because it gives more realism to works. Also, galleries prefer to sell this kind of paintings. If you want a Mona Lisa reproduction, don’t worry, you can get it. Many galleries can offer to you in few days. The price is according to the size. You don’t have to be a millionaire to enjoy genuine oil paintings of Claude Monet’s “Water Lily Pond” or Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” in your own home. It could be an excellent present. Remember that these works are 100% handmade.
Landscape oil painting; imagine an artist standing in front of a canvas perched on an easel, brush in one hand and the color plate in the other and lost in thought, you are most likely to visualise a backdrop of the mountains, sky, sea, river and forest. Since the history of landscape painting is as old as the early civilization, it has been one of the most popular subject matter for artists over the generations. Original oil paintings of landscapes have created history, adorned museums and private collections and fetched millions of dollars and pounds in prices. Landscape paintings can be further classified into many other forms like seascapes, skycapes, moonscapes, cityscapes, etc., and is still undergoing experiments.
Portraiture oil painting; well, just saying “Monalisa” should explain this I suppose. The most enigmatic portrait ever which everyone knows, even those who don’t know anything about art perhaps. The visual appearance of people, captured in different moods and angles, in different shades of light and shadow have always been a favourite subject for artists. Moreover a portrait painting tries to highlight the inner essence of the subject rather than the physical side. Beside human beings, artists also choose animals, pets and even inanimate objects as their subjects for a portrait.As these type of paintings are realistic in nature; great attention is paid by the artists in highlighting the minute details of facial structure, body composition, pose, mood, expression and also the backdrop.
Still life oil painting; which is an ultimate work of art where an artist ties to depict inanimate subject matters. Close-range renditions of objects arranged on a table or other flat surface is the most common subject in this type of oil paintings.Though each artist has his own creative ideas, typically you will find her giving importance to realistic details rather than impressionistic techniques. Since the 17th century, still life paintings have been quite popular amongst western painters and especially South African artists who have created amazing work of art on this subject.
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