Category Archives: Painting

3 Tips to Make Your Home Unique

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Many people today live in a world of cookie-cutter, subdivision homes. This can make it difficult for your home to stand out. However, by adding a few simple, personalized touches, you can make your home one of a kind.

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Individualized Art

Something simple that can make your home unique is an original work of art. Whether this is a sculpture or painting, it can help add a much needed personal touch to your home. However, if you cannot afford to purchase an original work of art, you can easily hang up paintings by family members or prints from your favorite artists. These pictures show your personal style and taste. When you add your own style to a house, it helps to create a personalized, homey atmosphere.

Customized Fire Gates

Another way to make your home more unique is to add custom fire gates. These can come in many shapes, colors, and sizes. They also come in unique patterns. For example, if you have a specific theme running through your home, you can make your gate match the theme. This is a simple way to make your home unique and different from everyone else’s homes.

Unique Rugs

Finally, the floor is a large space that can be used as a blank canvas. Many homes come with basic wood or tile flooring, so adding a rug you like can make your home unique. Rugs can come in hundreds of different fabrics, colors, shapes, and sizes, so it is inevitable that you will find the perfect rug for your home. You may even add several rugs around your home to further portray your own personal style and taste.

If you are hoping to make your standardized house stand out, you may think about getting unique or customized items. Making your home reflect who you are can be the simplest way to make your house into your home.

Crayon and Paint Art Technique

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Truth be told, it happens to even the best of us. Even the most prolific of artists does hit a blank wall at times, and finds it almost nerve-wracking to be left without inspiration for stunning artwork. If you’re one who happens feel like looking for the muses of art is like struggling with figuring out the difference between a universal vs term life insurance, then you can try this crayon and paint art technique for kids which can help put you back on the creativity track.

Seascape by NVT 2013

First, cover your work area with old newspapers. Then, using crayons, draw a beach scene on a piece of drawing paper. Lightly color in the blue sky, light brown sand. Add some bright beach towels and umbrellas.

The next thing to do is to recolor the picture using watercolor paints. Use blue paint over the areas you colored in with blue crayon, and so on. Let dry. You’ll be amazed at how mixing crayons and paint creates a new kind of texture.

Van Gogh Alive: The Experience

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Do you love arts? Are you a fan of Vincent Van Gogh’s artworks?

Get ready to encounter the life and works of Vincent Van Gogh, arguably one of history’s greatest artists with works like “The Starry Night”, “Cafe Terrace at Night”, and a number of self-portraits, as the world’s most visited multi-sensory experience comes to Manila in Van Gogh Alive.

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Witness the 4th floor of One Bonifacio High Street in BGC be turned into a Van Gogh haven through multichannel motion graphics, cinema quality surround sound, and up to forty high-definition projectors (courtesy of SENSORY4™), and be immersed into the painter’s over 3,000 works as classical music scores play throughout your visit.

Van Gogh Alive: The Experience will be from Oct. 26 to Dec. 8. Visit Bonifacio Global City’s website and social media platforms for more information.

Source: Manila Bulletin Lifestyle

The Best Essential Art Tools For Graphic Artists

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There might be no part of globe or any profession that does not need the service of a graphic designer. The least indirect interaction that any business can expect with a graphic designer is creating an awesome logo for its business. Today, lots of software and tools have been developed to make the complex tasks of graphic designers very easy and fast. Let’s have a look on some of the best art tools for the graphic artists.

Deviant ART

Deviantart is probably one the most popular art tools for graphic artists. It is an online platform for community of artwork, photography and videography. It offers the artworks in several categories such as digital art, photography, traditional art, flash, literature and skins for applications. Supplementary features comprise polls, journals, portfolios and groups.

Pixlr

Pixlr is a famous cloud-based platform for image tools and utilities. It offers numerous photo editors, photo sharing service and a browser extension for screen recording. The app of Pixlr provides the best feature of simple to advanced level photo editing.

PicMarkr Pro

PicMark Pro is the software which helps the graphic artists to Import the photos and pictures from computer or Flickr account, Add image or text watermark to the pictures, provides professional presets for watermarks related to text and gives an opportunity to edit all the characteristics of watermark such as fonts, transparency, backgrounds, color etc.

Wacom Bamboo

Wacom Bamboo is a Pen Tablet which enables to see the virtual canvas of your computer. It allows you to generate digital artwork just with pen touch. The Wacom bamboo tablet can simulates the instinctive feeling of pen on the paper thanks to its textured feature. Wacom pen tablets are easy to set up with user-friendly features. It can work with lots of creative programs. Moreover, it comes in bundled packs of software which are designed for just for the creative such as ArtRage® Studio and Autodesk SketchBook Express.